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Sensors in smart homes for independent living of the elderly

Sensors in smart homes for independent living of the elderly
Sensors in smart homes for independent living of the elderly

A rapidly ageing population requires support systems which would enable them to preserve dwellers' independence without compromising on their safety or their quality of life. Smart homes for the elderly have the potential to offer unobtrusive health and wellness monitoring. The aim is to provide a safe, independent living environment which can identify and predict problems by monitoring the activities of daily living (ADLs) of the inhabitants. For this, a system able to handle continuous streams of data is required. Such a system can extract the information by using appropriate classification and learning algorithms and thus allow the remote monitoring of health and wellbeing at a high level. The implementation requires: The use of appropriate sensing technologies, identification of ADLs, data pre-processing techniques and machine learning algorithms. This is challenging due to individual differences: Such a system must be able to personalize individual needs. Our contribution was the design and implementation of a platform to smartly monitor health condition of elderly using sensor data from a smart home, through an interactive user interface which is user-friendly and multi-platform. This proof-of-concept used off-line data, with the view to extend to real-time data collection in the future, which could then be used to inform support providers remotely.

Elderly, Smart Homes, Activity recognition, Unobtrusive monitoring, Health Care, Machine Learning, Learning Algorithms
IEEE
Pirzada, Pireh
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White, Neil
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Wilde, Adriana Gabriela
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Pirzada, Pireh
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White, Neil
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Wilde, Adriana Gabriela
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Pirzada, Pireh, White, Neil and Wilde, Adriana Gabriela (2018) Sensors in smart homes for independent living of the elderly. In 5th International Multi-Topic ICT Conference: Technologies For Future Generations, IMTIC 2018 - Proceedings. IEEE.. (doi:10.1109/IMTIC.2018.8467234).

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Abstract

A rapidly ageing population requires support systems which would enable them to preserve dwellers' independence without compromising on their safety or their quality of life. Smart homes for the elderly have the potential to offer unobtrusive health and wellness monitoring. The aim is to provide a safe, independent living environment which can identify and predict problems by monitoring the activities of daily living (ADLs) of the inhabitants. For this, a system able to handle continuous streams of data is required. Such a system can extract the information by using appropriate classification and learning algorithms and thus allow the remote monitoring of health and wellbeing at a high level. The implementation requires: The use of appropriate sensing technologies, identification of ADLs, data pre-processing techniques and machine learning algorithms. This is challenging due to individual differences: Such a system must be able to personalize individual needs. Our contribution was the design and implementation of a platform to smartly monitor health condition of elderly using sensor data from a smart home, through an interactive user interface which is user-friendly and multi-platform. This proof-of-concept used off-line data, with the view to extend to real-time data collection in the future, which could then be used to inform support providers remotely.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 25 April 2018
Published date: 17 September 2018
Venue - Dates: 5th International Multi-Topic ICT Conference: Technologies For Future Generations, IMTIC 2018, , Jamshoro, Pakistan, 2018-04-25 - 2018-04-27
Keywords: Elderly, Smart Homes, Activity recognition, Unobtrusive monitoring, Health Care, Machine Learning, Learning Algorithms

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Local EPrints ID: 425969
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/425969
PURE UUID: b782d489-e829-4215-9fa0-68539506a925
ORCID for Neil White: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1532-6452
ORCID for Adriana Gabriela Wilde: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1684-1539

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Date deposited: 08 Nov 2018 17:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 04:06

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Author: Pireh Pirzada
Author: Neil White ORCID iD
Author: Adriana Gabriela Wilde ORCID iD

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