IEC 63240-1:2024 ED2

Active assisted living (AAL) reference architecture and architecture model - Part 1: Reference architecture

Publication date:   Nov 8, 2024

Scope

IEC 63240-1:2024 specifies the AAL reference architecture. This document defines concepts and introduces terminology. It provides generic rules for designers of AAL systems and services with the aim to facilitate systems design and enable interoperability between components. This document identifies safety, security, privacy, and other requirements for AAL systems such as usability, accessibility, and trustworthiness (reliability, resilience) and sets up a process to identify the needs on the body area network (BAN), edge and cloud computing in the architecture perspective.
IEC 63240-1:2024 cancels and replaces the first edition published in 2020. This edition constitutes a technical revision.
This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition:
a) clarifying the Introduction;
b) new terms and definitions have been added in 3.1;
c) adaption of terms according to the IEV in the whole document;
d) reference to ethical considerations of AI when applied in the AAL context has been added in Clause 5;
e) clarifying the description of AAL reference architecture in 6.3.1;
f) process to identify the needs on BAN, edge and cloud computing in the architecture perspective has been added in 6.3.2 and 6.3.3;
g) new figures have been added in 6.3.2 and 6.3.3;
h) reference to standards inventory has been added in 7.1;
i) clarification of 7.5;
j) Annex A has been added;
k) updated bibliography.