CONFIDENT living for people with special needs
Early next year 10,000 abused women across Spain are due to receive a prototype personal alarm system operated by Vodafone and the Red Cross. The system stems from the results of CONFIDENT, which developed mobile services to enhance the independence of people with special needs.
“CONFIDENT allowed us to validate the technology, the new trial with victims of domestic violence will show whether such systems are socially acceptable,” explains Rafael Lamas, the coordinator of IST project CONFIDENT at Fundación Vodafone in Spain.
The project ended last year having developed a system to provide the disabled and elderly with immediate access to personalised assistance over wireless devices. Employing secure UMTS technology, it allows social and medical workers to monitor users’ status and users to obtain help in an emergency.
“The aim of the project was to increase the independence of people who have special needs by giving them the ability to be in immediate contact with a call centre where they can obtain assistance,” Lamas says. “The use of the system with abused women is a continuation of that work and the technology itself is a direct result of CONFIDENT.”
CONFIDENT living for people with special needs
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