SOPRANO Ambient Middleware: Eine offene, flexible und marktori- entierte semantische Diensteplattform für Ambient Assisted Living

The European Integrated Project SOPRANO aims at an open platform for ambient assisted living solutions, allowing older people a longer life on their own in their own environment. To be successful on the market, such solutions need to be flexible and adaptable to individual needs, supported by a living market ecology in which not a single vendor pro- vides everything, but different actors can bring in their strengths. As an enabler, a technical platform is designed that al- lows for the integration of their services, products, and experiences. But a simple technical notion of modularity is not sufficient for complex domains like AAL to ensure a frictionless orchestration of independently developed system com- ponents. Here, methods for sustaining semantic coherence are needed. To that end, SOPRANO builds upon an ontology- based architecture and semantic contracts between individual components.