City4Age will activate urban Communities to facilitate the role of social/health services and of families in dealing with mild cognitive impairments and frailty in the elderly population. The challenge is to demonstrate that Cities play a pivotal role in the unobtrusive collection of “more data” on individual behaviours, and with “increased frequency”. This can then greatly improve the early detection of risks through the timely analysis of changes in these behaviours and, finally, the design of effective interventions for countering these risks.

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El Proyecto ADi coordinará y complementará la investigación tecnológica dirigida a reforzar la excelencia, el dinamismo y la creatividad de la investigación en turismo, desarrollo territorial y movilidad. Se generarán herramientas y soluciones tecnológicas que posibiliten un mejor conocimiento y entendimiento del turismo como fenómeno social, su impacto en el territorio y en las personas. Se estudiará la movilidad humana como fenómeno social y tecnológico y su vinculación al desarrollo de las ciudades-región. Se generarán, asimismo, las bases para el desarrollo del destino inteligente: desde la apertura y vinculación de los datos, pasando por la conexión de las cosas creando nuevos espacios para la interacción que posibilitan un nuevo paradigma de consumo de información turística.

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The aim of SMARTUR is to move forward in the study of mobility as a social and technological phenomenon. In line with work carried out in previous projects, this project will coordinate and supplement technological research focused on three areas: Destinations, territory and mobility, identifying main destinations in the Basque Country; Smart Destinations, strengthening the relationship between visitor and destination; Data economy in tourism, studying ways to manage and make more efficient use of data.

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The project's main aim is to define, design and implement technologies and standards that allow adapting, validating and integrating Open Linked Data coming from governments and enterprises in order to exploit them by citizens and companies.

The aim of this project is to provide a set of methods, tools and technical solutions that support migrating towards advanced service oriented development models, having in mind methodological, technological and business aspects. Thus, mCloud will help to increase Spanish software companies' competitiveness by giving them tools to progress towards the Internet of Services where applications will mainly be deployed on the Cloud.

The goal of this project is to develop a set of technological and innovative capabilities to enhance the Basque Tourism Competitiveness.

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The goal of this project is to develop platforms and technologies to enable a High Value Service explotation environment through usage of Future Internet capabilities to enhance the business potential of the service economy.

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Impact of personal spheres in real, augmented and virtual tourism spaces. Areas of Research: Tourism Sciences, Semantic Technologies – ontologies – Contextual Computing, Emotional Computing, Services Architecture, The Internet of Things, Urban Computing, Boolean Algebra, Travel & Tourism Technology, Advanced Information and Communication Services, Augmented & Virtual Reality, Tourism Resources Management, Statistics: measurement of tourism flows.

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http://paginaspersonales.deusto.es/dipina/

Red temática española de Linked Data

The goal of this project is to design, develop and evaluate a collaborative work environment based on social and semantic Web technologies to support networking innovation models in order to accelerate innovation processes through an architecture of participation and intelligent information management.

For further information, please visit the SELENE website (in Spanish).

http://www.morelab.deusto.es/selene

The goal of this project is to develop an automated, intelligent, modular platform with configurable parameters to manage, recommend and publish real-time information for tourism facilities and equipment, and to provide advanced services for the tourism providers, users and visitors. BaliaTour will use the concept of tourism facilities and equipment (i.e. providers) to categorise stakeholders in the tourism value chain, i.e. as hotels and hotel chains, rural accommodation and resorts, cruise liners, marinas, conference centres, cultural institutions and natural resources (parks).

The idea is to create a new ITC-based tourism product that situates Basque technology-based firms in a strategically advantageous position within the tourism sector. The development of this product will be based on knowledge transfer from members of the Basque Science, Technology and Innovation Network to companies working in the sector.

For further information, please visit the Balia Tour website (http://www.tourgune.org/en/4/22/0/0/projects-baliatour.html).

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The DomoRIA (Domotic Rich Internet Applications) project defines a Web 2.0 platform to abstract and control the devices in a home automation deployment by means of a set of web gadgets integrated in a central control dashboard accessible and adaptable to the physical features of the target client (mobile or fixed). The main goals of the project are:

• Create a new platform based on RIA and web technologies to universally control the devices at a house.
• Adapt the control interfaces to the physical features of the devices used by the user following the approach “write an interface once and show it in different devices respecting its appearance and use”.
• Guarantee the extensibility of the control platform, allowing the new integration of devices following the approach Plug-and-play (PnP).
• Integrate the control platform which generates RIA interfaces for browsers in devices connected to Internet and mediates with the underlying home automation installation and its protocols. Such platform has to be inserted in small low powered embedded devices.

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