Evaluation of AAL Middleware Platforms
Key: LMD+12-1
Author: Myriam Lipprandt, Alexander Marinc, Tim Dutz, Guido Moritz, Marco Eichelberg, Reiner Wichert, Andreas Hein
Date: September 2012
Kind: In proceedings
Book title: Tomorrow in sight: from design to delivery. Proceedings of the 4th AAL Forum Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 24-27 September 2012
Abstract: In this paper we present preliminary results of an evaluation of existing AAL middleware platforms with regards to their suitability for “real life” AAL system development. The process of identifying the most important platforms already showed that the term “AAL middleware” is vague and has overlap with different domains like ambient intelligence (AmI) frameworks and home automation. The final list contained 54 platforms from research projects, industry and various open source projects. After applying three very basic rule-out criteria, only 10 platforms were left. This result, after years of funding, is certainly an alarming sign. Nevertheless there is hope that the second phase of deeper evaluation of the 10 remaining platforms, which is ongoing, will identify at least one platform suitable for the purpose of real-life AAL applications.

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