SENSACTION-AAL is a European Comission FP6 funded Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP).  

The ultimate goal of the SENSACTION-AAL is to assist older people in maintaining independent mobility and daily life activities and prevent injuries by introducing smart body fixed sensor based technology that allow medical professionals to initiate interventions in the home environment. 

SENSACTION-AAL offers the opportunity for a significant advancement of the state-of-the-art in the field of ambulatory assisting devices for enhancing safety and security in balance and movement.   To achieve this goal, the SENSACTION-AAL project will design, test and release a next-generation, smart, wireless on-body system which enables:
1. monitoring of activities of daily living
2. simultaneous real-time active control of physical performance using principles such as sensory augmentation and biofeedback.

This system is equipped with both biosensors and bioactuators in-the-loop. The SENSACTION-AAL architecture will introduce new ICT solutions that make the proposed system:
1. easy-to-wear and easy-to-use
2. active anywhere, anytime
3. cost effective

This solution solution will be highly usable and can support the elderly people in their preferred environment. The key challenge is to develop an integrated system that brings together the different components involved (network cells; communication protocols; embedded real-time algorithms for actuator control; signal processing algorithms; data warehousing, web-based data access). An extended in-vivo accurate validation carried out with the support of end-users is also foreseen to assess the satisfaction of key user requirements and produce a solution which is adequate for industrial take-up. 

SENSACTION-AAL started on January 1^st, 2007.