Research Project Description:

The project aims to construct and pilot assistive care technology for older people.

As the demographic old-age (people aged ≥ 65) dependency ratio is projected to increase from 27.8% to 50.1% in the EU until 2060, the demand for services for older adults will face increasing pressure in Europe. Old age is particularly associated with an increased need for social and medical assistance, home and residential care, and with changes in the structure of family and community life. Soon, quality of life (QoL) and wellbeing for older adults will need support of complementary, non-traditional, ICT-based care practices.

Objectives:

In response to increasing demand for services for older people, vINCI proposes the development of an integrated and validated evidence-based Internet of Things (IoT) framework to deliver non-intrusive monitoring and support for older adults to augment professional health care giving. By integrating proven open-data analytics technology with innovative user-driven IoT devices in four standardized kits, and with business models, vINCI aims to assist caregivers and provide smart care for older adults at out-patients clinics and outdoors. To verify, test (clinical validation), and identify its added value, two multi-disciplinary controlled pilots (in Romania and Cyprus) and two open-call validations (in Poland and Slovenia) will be deployed in controlled environments for real-life use cases involving older adults across Europe. The final goal is to demonstrate a systematic approach to ensure the highest level of quality control, automated monitoring, and data governance.

Principal Investigator(s) and Coordinating Institution(s):

  • National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, Romania

 Researchers at University of Nicosia

  • School of Sciences & Engineering: Constantinos Mavromoustakis (Coordinator)
  • Medical School: Dr Costas Constantinou

UNIC Participating Institution:

  • University of Nicosia Research Foundation (UNRF)

Other Participating Institution (s):

  • Italy (Marche Polytechnic University)
  • Poland (National Institute of Telecommunications)
  • Romania (Connected Medical Devices)
  • Italy (Automa Srl)
  • Italy (Salvatelli Sr)
  • Romania (National Institute of Gerontology and Geriatrics “Ana Aslan”)
  • Poland (Orange Polska S.A.)
  • Slovenia (Comtrade Digital Services)

Research Project Acronym: vINCI

Funding Agency: Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF)

Funding Programme: The AAL (Active Assisted Living) Programme

Total Research Project Budget: €1,267,189

Research Project Status: Completed

Start and End Dates: 01 June 2017 – 31 December 2021

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 Related Publications [UNIC Medical School]:

  1. Constantinou C.S., Mavromoustakis C., Philippou A. & Mastorakis G. (2021). Piloting Intelligent Methodologies for Assisted Living Technology Through a Mixed Research Approach: The VINCI Project in Cyprus. In Internet of Things (Technology, Communications and Computing). Springer, Cham.: 501 – 511. [Chapter in Book]
  2. Constantinou C.S., Gurung T., Motamedian H., Mavromoustakis C. & Mastorakis G. (Aug 2021). New Ambient Assisted Living Technology: A Narrative Review. In N. Magaia, G. Mastorakis, C. Mavromoustakis, E. Pallis, E.K. Markakis (Eds.), Intelligent Technologies for Internet of Vehicles. Springer, Cham.: 487-499. [Chapter in Book]
  3. Constantinou C.S., Mavromoustakis C. & Philippou A. (2021). Piloting the vINCI technology in Cyprus. XIII-the National Congress of Geriatrics and Gerontology with International Participation Functional Independence of Older People and Active Longevity. Romanian Journal of Gerontology and Geriatrics, ISSN-L: 0254-2307.

*Related Publications [UNIC]:

  1. Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, Jordi Mongay Batalla and George Mastorakis, Evangelos Markakis and Evangelos Pallis, Socially-oriented Edge Computing for Energy-Awareness in IoT Architectures, IEEE Communications Magazine, Volume: 56, Issue: 7, July 2018.
  2. K. Al-Shayea, C. X. Mavromoustakis, G. Mastorakis, J. M. Batalla, E. K. Markakis and E. Pallis, On the Efficiency Evaluation of a Novel Scheme Based on Daubechies Wavelet for Watermarking in 5G, 2018 IEEE 23rd International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), Barcelona, 2018, pp. 1-6. doi: 10.1109/CAMAD. 2018.8514968.
  3. Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, George Mastorakis, and Jordi Mongay Batalla, A Mobile Edge Computing Model enabling efficient Computation offload-aware Energy Conservation accepted for publication in IEEE Access, August 2019.
  4. Revathi Sundarasekar, Mohamed Shakee, Seifedine Kadry, George Mastorakis, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, Dinesh Jackson Samuel and Vivekananda GN, Adaptive Energy Aware Quality of Service for Reliable Data Transfer in Under Water Acoustic Sensor Networks, in IEEE Access. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2921833 June 2019.
  5. Tamara Alshayeh, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, Jordi Mongay Batalla and George Mastorakis, A Hybridized Measurement Methodology for Different Wavelet Transformations Targeting Medical Images in Internet of Things (IoT) Infrastructures, Measurement, Elsevier, Volume 148, 106813, 2019.
  6. Tamara Alshayeh, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, Jordi Mongay Batalla, George Mastorakis, Mithun Mukherjee and Periklis Chatzimisios, Efficiency-Aware Watermarking Using Different Wavelet Families for the Internet of Things, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2019 in track Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling Symposium – Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling, 20-24 May 2019, Shanghai, China.
  7. Mithun Mukherjee, Suman Kumar, Mohammad Shojafar, Qi Zhang and Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, Joint Task Offloading and Resource Allocation for Delay-sensitive Fog Networks, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2019 in track Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling Symposium – Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling, 20-24 May 2019, Shanghai, China.
  8. Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, George Mastorakis, Jordi Mongay Batalla, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues and John N. Sahalos, Edge Computing for Offload-Aware Energy Conservation using M2M Recommendation Mechanisms, appears in proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference: Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling – Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling, GlobeCom 2019, Dec 9, 2019 – Dec 13, 2019, Waikoloa Village, Puako, Hawaii, United States.
  9. Grace Khayat, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, Jordi Mongay Batalla, George Mastorakis, Hoda Maalouf and Mithun Mukherjee, Tuning the Uplink Success Probability in Damaged Critical Infrastructures, in proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (IEEE CAMAD 2019), 11-13 September 2019, Limassol, Cyprus.
  10. Mithun Mukherjee, Rakesh Matam, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, Hao Jiang, George Mastorakis and Mian Guo, Intelligent Edge Computing: Security and Privacy Challenges, IEEE Communications Magazine, Volume: 58, Issue: 9, September 2020, pp. 26-31.
  11. Ioannis Kounatidis, Constandinos X Mavromoustakis, Periklis Chatzimisios, George Mastorakis and Jordi Mongay Batalla, A Secure, Energy-E_cient and Distributed Manageable Model for a Smart Home, in proceedings of the 2020 annual International conference on Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing (IWCMC 2020) under the theme of _Internet of Everything_ (IWCMC 2020 Wireless Sensor Symposium – Wireless Sensors 2020), June 15 _ 19, 2020 in St. Raphael Resort & Marina, Limassol, Cyprus.
  12. Grace Khayat, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, George Mastorakis, Jordi Mongay Batalla, Hoda Maalouf and Evangelos Pallis, VANET Clustering Based on Weighted Trusted Cluster Head Selection, in proceedings of the 2020 annual International conference on Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing (IWCMC 2020) under the theme of _Internet of Everything_ (IWCMC 2020 Comm & Signal Processing Symposium – Comm&Signal Processing 2020), June 15 _ 19, 2020 in St. Raphael Resort & Marina, Limassol, Cyprus.
  13. Katerina Papanikolaou, Constandinos X Mavromoustakis, George Mastorakis, Jordi Mongay Batalla, Ciprian Dobre and Konstantinos Katzis, On the Social Network Centrality Principle for Human Centric Efficiency, in proceedings of the 2020 annual International conference on Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing (IWCMC 2020) under the theme of _Internet of Everything_ (IWCMC 2020 Smart Cities and Connected Communities – SmartCity&Community2020), June 15_ 19, 2020 in St. Raphael Resort & Marina, Limassol, Cyprus.
  14. Grace Khayat, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, George Mastorakis, Jordi Mongay Batalla, Hoda Maalouf, Mithun Mukherjee and Evangelos Pallis, Retransmission-based Successful Delivery Tuning in Damaged Critical Infrastructures, accepted in proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling Symposium – Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling, IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2020), 7-11 June 2020, Dublin, Ireland.
  15. Andreas Andreou, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, George Mastorakis, Shahid Mumtaz, Jordi Mongay Batalla and Evangelos Pallis, Modi_ed Machine Learning Technique for Curve Fitting on Regression Models for COVID-19 projections, appears in proceedings of the 2020 IEEE 25th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), 1-6, 14-16 September 2020, Pisa, Italy.
  16. Grace Khayat, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, George Mastorakis, Jordi Mongay Batalla; Hoda Maalouf; Shahid Mumtaz and Evangelos Pallis, Successful Delivery in VANETs with Damaged Infrastructures Based on Double Cluster Head Selection, appears in proceedings of the 2020 IEEE 25th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), 1-5, 14-16 September 2020, Pisa, Italy.
  17. Andreas, A., Mavromoustakis, C.X., Mastorakis, G. et al. Towards an optimized security approach to IoT devices with confidential healthcare data exchange. Multimed Tools Appl 80, 31435_31449 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-021-10827-x Available at: https://rdcu.be/cz5L5.
  18. Mithun Mukherjee, Vikas Kumar, Qi Zhang, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, and Rakesh Matam, Optimal Pricing for Offloaded Hard- and Soft-deadline Tasks in Edge Computing, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE ITS), Nov. 2021, accepted 16.9.2021.
  19. Andreas Andreou, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, George Mastorakis, Jordi Mongay Batalla, Evangelos Pallis, Evaluation of the COVID-19 Era Through Machine Learning and Interpretation of Confidential Dataset, accepted in Electronics Journal, on 19 November 2021.
  20. Andreas Andreou, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, George Mastorakis, Shahid Mumtaz, Jordi Mongay Batalla and Evangelos Pallis, Robust Encryption to Enhance IoT Confidentiality for Healthcare Ecosystems Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE 26th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD) IEEE CAMAD 2021, 25-27 October 2021.
  21. George Mastorakis, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, Jordi Mongay Batalla and Evangelos Pallis, Book title: Intelligent Wireless Communications, Topic Area: Intelligent and Smart Services in Wireless and Mobile Communications, Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET)/former IEE/UK, Publisher: IET, May 2021.
  22. Andreas Andreou, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, George Mastorakis, Evangelos Pallis, Naercio Magaia and Evangelos K. Markakis, Intelligently Reduce Transportation’s Energy Consumption, in Book Intelligent Technologies for Internet of Vehicles (Internet of Things), in Series Title: Internet of Things: Technology, Communications and Computing, to be published by Springer International Publishing AG, 3rd Quarter of 2021, Springer August 2021, pp. 293-309.
  23. Tamara K Al-Shayea, Constandinos X Mavromoustakis, George Mastorakis, Jordi Mongay Batalla, Evangelos Pallis, Evangelos Markakis, Imran K Khan, Dinh-Thuan Do, Discrete wavelet transform applications in the IoMT, in Book entitled Intelligent Wireless Communications, Publisher: IET, pp. 87, 2021.

*Related Conference Proceedings:

  1. K. Al-Shayea, C. X. Mavromoustakis, G. Mastorakis, J. M. Batalla, E. K. Markakis and E. Pallis, On the E‑ciency Evaluation of a Novel Scheme Based on Daubechies Wavelet for Watermarking in 5G, 2018 IEEE 23rd International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), Barcelona, 2018, pp. 1-6. doi: 10.1109/CAMAD.2018.8514968.
  2. Spinsante, A. Strazza, C. Dobre, L. Bajenaru, C. X. Mavromoustakis, J. M. Batalla, P. Krawiec, G. Georgescu, G. Molan, H. Gonzalez-Velez, A. M. Herghelegiu, G. I. Prada, R. Draghici (2019). Integrated Consumer Technologies for Older Adults’ Quality of Life Improvement: the vINCI Project, 10th Italian Forum on Ambient Assisted Living, 19-21 June, 2019, Ancona (Italy).
  3. Tamara Alshayeh, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, Jordi Mongay Batalla, George Mastorakis, Mithun Mukherjee and Periklis Chatzimisios, E‑ciency-Aware Watermarking Using Dierent Wavelet Families for the Internet of Things, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2019 in track Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling Symposium – Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling, 20-24 May 2019, Shanghai, China.
  4. Mithun Mukherjee, Suman Kumar, Mohammad Shojafar, Qi Zhang and Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, Joint Task O­oading and Resource Allocation for Delay-sensitive Fog Networks, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2019 in track Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling Symposium – Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling, 20-24 May 2019, Shanghai, China.
  5. Draghici, A. Rusu, G.I. Prada, A.M. Herghelegiu, L. Bajenaru, C. Dobre, C.X. Mavromoustakis, S. Spinsante, J.M. Batalla, H. Gonzalez-Velez, Acceptability of digital Quality of Life Questionnaire corroborated with data from tracking devices, IEEE CAMAD 2019 (International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks), SS1 – Ambient Assisted Living and Environments: 11-13 September 2019, Limassol, Cyprus.
  6. Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, George Mastorakis, Jordi Mongay Batalla, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues and John N. Sahalos, Edge Computing for O­oad-Aware Energy Conservation using M2M Recommendation Mechanisms, appears in proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference: Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling – Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling, GlobeCom 2019, Dec 9, 2019 – Dec 13, 2019, Waikoloa Village, Puako, Hawaii, United States.
  7. Grace Khayat, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, Jordi Mongay Batalla, George Mastorakis, Hoda Maalouf and Mithun Mukherjee, Tuning the Uplink Success Probability in Damaged Critical Infrastructures, in proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (IEEE CAMAD 2019), 11-13 September 2019, Limassol, Cyprus.
  8. Bajenaru, L., Marinescu, I. A., Dobre, C., Prada, G. I., Constantinou, Costas S. (2020). Towards the development of a personalized healthcare solution for elderly: from user needs to system specifications. Proceedings of The 12th International Conference on Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence – ECAI 2020, Bucharest, Romania, online, 25-27 June 2020, WOS:000627393500127.
  9. Ioannis Kounatidis, Constandinos X Mavromoustakis, Periklis Chatzimisios, George Mastorakis and Jordi Mongay Batalla, A Secure, Energy-E‑cient and Distributed Manageable Model for a Smart Home, in proceedings of the 2020 annual International conference on Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing (IWCMC 2020) under the theme of Internet of Everything (IWCMC 2020 Wireless Sensor Symposium – Wireless Sensors 2020), June 15 19, 2020 in St. Raphael Resort & Marina, Limassol, Cyprus.
  10. Grace Khayat, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, George Mastorakis, Jordi Mongay Batalla, Hoda Maalouf and Evangelos Pallis, VANET Clustering Based on Weighted Trusted Cluster Head Selection, in proceedings of the 2020 annual International conference on Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing (IWCMC 2020) under the theme of Internet of Everything (IWCMC 2020 Comm & Signal Processing Symposium – Comm&Signal Processing 2020), June 15-19, 2020 in St. Raphael Resort & Marina, Limassol, Cyprus.
  11. Katerina Papanikolaou, Constandinos X Mavromoustakis, George Mastorakis, Jordi Mongay Batalla, Ciprian Dobre and Konstantinos Katzis, On the Social Network Centrality Principle for Human Centric E‑ciency, in proceedings of the 2020 annual International conference on Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing (IWCMC 2020) under the theme of Internet of Everything (IWCMC 2020 Smart Cities and Connected Communities – SmartCity&Community2020), June 15-19, 2020 in St. Raphael Resort & Marina, Limassol, Cyprus.
  12. Grace Khayat, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, George Mastorakis, Jordi Mongay Batalla, Hoda Maalouf, Mithun Mukherjee and Evangelos Pallis, Retransmission-based Successful Delivery Tuning in Damaged Critical Infrastructures, accepted in proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling Symposium – Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling, IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2020), 7-11 June 2020, Dublin, Ireland.
  13. Andreas Andreou, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, George Mastorakis, Shahid Mumtaz, Jordi Mongay Batalla and Evangelos Pallis, Modified Machine Learning Technique for Curve Fitting on Regression Models for COVID-19 projections, appears in proceedings of the 2020 IEEE 25th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), 1-6, 14-16 September 2020, Pisa, Italy.
  14. Grace Khayat, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, George Mastorakis, Jordi Mongay Batalla; Hoda Maalouf; Shahid Mumtaz and Evangelos Pallis, Successful Delivery in VANETs with Damaged Infrastructures Based on Double Cluster Head Selection, appears in proceedings of the 2020 IEEE 25th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), 1-5, 14-16 September 2020, Pisa, Italy.
  15. Andreas Andreou, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, George Mastorakis, Shahid Mumtaz, Jordi Mongay Batalla and Evangelos Pallis, Robust Encryption to Enhance IoT Confidentiality for Healthcare Ecosystems Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE 26th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD) IEEE CAMAD 2021, 25-27 October 2021.

Related Conference Abstracts:

  1. Dobre, C., Bajenaru, L., Marinescu, I. A., Tomescu, M., Balog, A., Prada, G. I, Draghici, R. Herghelegiu, A. M., Constantinou, C. S. (2021). Improving the Older Adults’ Quality of Life using vINCI Technology. XIII-th National Congress of Geriatrics and Gerontology with International Participation Functional Independence of Older People and Active Longevity, Romanian Journal of Gerontology and Geriatrics 2021, ISSN-L: 0254-2307.
  2. Constantinou, C.S., Mavromoustakis, C., Philippou, A. Piloting the vINCI technology in Cyprus. XIII-th National Congress of Geriatrics and Gerontology with International Participation Functional Independence of Older People and Active Longevity, Romanian Journal of Gerontology and Geriatrics 2021, ISSN-L: 0254-2307.