The paper presents the process of developing a digital platform, especially the databases that support the possibilities to handle big data in the e-health sector for purposes of fall prevention with the objective to achieve independent living at home. It focuses on the system development process, i.e. requirements elicitation, engineering, as well as highlights consequently the explicit aspects, challenges and matters encountered in the development process of the FRONT-VL project, specifically for the database development phase. In addition, the importance of considering existent standards during the development process are highlighted. Hence, it aims to provide best practices for the development process. Thus, the authors go through the requirements elicitation process to understand the data and technologies needed to attain ICT objectives of the project.