Future Care Lab

Technical assistance systems and technology-supported services for care, often summarized under the term Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), have the potential to enable people in need of medical care to live independently in their own homes for a long time and can contribute to the more efficient use of scarce resources.

HFU has set up the “Future Care Lab” (FCL) for the needs-based development of technical assistance systems and their successful transfer into practice. As an experimental field, it enables the comprehensive development, integration and evaluation of technical assistance systems and services with the involvement of users as part of inter- and transdisciplinary research at the HFU Internal link opens in the same window:Care and Technology Lab.

In the Future Care Lab, students of applied health sciences can gain practical experience in dealing with new technologies and learn about the possible applications of assistive systems. In addition, the FCL can also be used for student work on bachelor's and master's degree programmes.

The technologies integrated in the Future Care Lab include smart home components (sensors and actuators), active lighting systems, touch-, voice- and gesture-controlled systems, 2D and 3D localisation systems, wearable vital sensors and assistance robotics. In addition, the FCL also offers a comprehensive range of low-threshold aids and rehabilitation technology. Thanks to complete system integration, an intelligent home control system can detect activities and conditions of the resident as well as dangerous situations and intervene to provide assistance as appropriate.