The activage marketplace: Hybrid logic- and text-based discovery of active and healthy ageing iot applications

Abstract

Currently, Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA) IoT solutions for the global ageing population, remain segmented. The ACTIVAGE project aims to integrate prevalent IoT platforms, enhanced with data analytics, developer, deployment, security and privacy tools to enable large-scale AHA pilots all over Europe. This paper presents the ACTIVAGE Marketplace, a one-stop-shop for developers to provide and for end-users, carers and healthcare professionals to discover AHA IoT Apps. The Marketplace offers standard functionality such as Developers uploading, monetizing and tracking analytics for their Apps, Users discovering, buying and downloading them, as well as Administrators managing and moderating content. In addition, it offers its own, hybrid logic- and text-based method to discover alternatives from the wide variety of Apps, from sensor behavioral monitoring to exergames or pill reminder interventions. For this purpose, the Marketplace ontology defines App semantic properties, such as a hierarchy of App Categories, combined with keyword-based text-similarity search.