The headline objective of ReAAL is to promote standards, guidelines and reference platforms for interoperable solutions in the domain of active and independent living and demonstrate by 2015 an ICT ecosystem that uses them in pilot sites involving at least 5000 users in at least five countries. In this context, ReAAL will validate
the role of common open platforms in putting interoperability standards in place and measure the related socio-economic impact. The evaluation framework will be multidimensional, allowing to also consider the ethical, legal, market, quality of life, and user experience impacts in addition to the socio-economic impact. Finally, best practices associated with the technical and organisational aspects of the deployment and public procurement will be collected, the effectiveness of the value chain for different business and organizational set-ups assessed, and existing business models refined and consolidated. ReAAL will make its findings and recommendations available in a public knowledge portal that should serve as the ultimate reference for best practices and lessons learned in case of large-scale roll-outs with interoperability focus.

To achieve the above goals, ReAAL plans to deploy within 36 months several applications in the field of active and independent living on top of the universAAL platform in several pilot sites involving ca. 7000 users in 8 countries. As the result of the FP7 project universAAL (www.universaal.org), the universAAL platform is the most prominent candidate platform in this field. universAAL was launched in 2010 with the aim to reduce barriers

in adoption and promoting development and uptake of innovative AAL solutions. The technical strategy has been to enable interoperability in terms of execution on a wide variety of different operating systems, allowing plug-and-play use of sensors and other equipment available on the open market and enabling easy composition of service elements to provide higher-level services. Within ReAAL, partners of the universAAL project will set up a full exploitation environment that consists of uStore, Development Depot, and run-time platform components.