Ambient Monitoring in Smart Home for Independent Living

2019 ◽  
pp. 57-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Kavitha ◽  
Sumitra Binu
Keyword(s):  
Independent Living ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
Ambient Monitoring

scholarly journals Evaluation of Treatment in the Smart Home IRIS in terms of Functional Independence and Occupational Performance and Satisfaction

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julija Ocepek ◽  
Anne E. K. Roberts ◽  
Gaj Vidmar
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
Functional Independence Measure ◽  
Functional Independence ◽  
Performance Measure ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Occupational Performance ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Persons With Disabilities

The development of assistive technologies, home modifications, and smart homes has rapidly advanced in the last two decades. Health professionals have recognised the benefits of these technologies in improving individual’s quality of life. The Smart Home IRIS was established in 2008 within the University Rehabilitation Institute in Ljubljana with the aim to enable persons with disabilities and elderly people to test various assistive technologies and technical solutions for their independent living. We investigated the effect of treatments in the Smart Home IRIS. A convenience sample of 59 persons with disabilities and elderly people (aged 24–81 years) who were treated in the Smart Home IRIS from April to December 2011 participated. Standardised instruments—the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) and the Functional Independence Measure (FIM)—were administered at the first assessment in the Smart Home IRIS and at a second assessment at the participant’s home after 6–12 months. All the outcomes statistically significantly improved from the first to the second assessment. The treatments in the Smart Home IRIS appeared to contribute to higher occupational performance and satisfaction with performance and higher functional independence of persons with disabilities and elderly people.

scholarly journals Smart home modification design strategies for ageing in place: a systematic review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuan Ma ◽  
Olivia Guerra-Santin ◽  
Masi Mohammadi
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
Universal Design ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Ageing In Place ◽  
Home Modification ◽  
Hand Search ◽  
Modification Process

AbstractThis research explores current strategies and approaches directed to integrate innovative technologies in the home modification process to support independent living and ageing in place. The systematic review considered studies conducted from the perspective of architecture, smart technology, and gerontology. Scientific databases of related disciplines (e.g. Scopus, Web of Science, Engineer village, Google Scholar, Crossref) were searched and supplemented by hand search method. Thirty-three out of 2594 articles were analysed from three perspectives: the framework of the smart home environment for ageing in place, the smart home modification process, and problems and countermeasures of independent living. The result shows that both home modification and smart technologies can support older adults’ independent living, especially with fall prevention and indoor accessibility. Technologies deployed in older adults’ homes are transiting from manual assistive technology to more intelligent devices, and the notion of the robotic home has emerged. According to existing practices, universal design is an extensively adopted strategy for smart home design and modification. However, in most cases, universal design is used as a retrofitting guideline for general home settings rather than specifically for smart homes. The fundamental requirements in smart home modification phases are customisation, minimum life interference, and extensible technologies to cope with the ageing process.

scholarly journals From Smart Homes to Smart-Ready Homes and Communities

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumi Helal ◽  
Christopher N. Bull
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Living ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
Smart Homes ◽  
User Needs ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Assistive Environment ◽  
Platform Technology ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
Over Time

Background: People have various and changing needs as they age, and the number of people living with some form of dementia is steadily increasing. Smart homes have a unique potential to provide assisted living but are often designed rigidly with a specific and fixed problem in mind. Objectives: To make smart-ready homes and communities that can be adaptively and easily updated over time to support varying user needs and to deliver the needed assistance, empowerment, and living independence. Method: The design and deployment of programmable assistive environment for older adults. Results: The use of platform technology (a special form of what is known today as the Internet of Things or IoT) has enabled the decoupling of goal setting and application development from sensing and assistive technology deployment and insertion in the assistive environment. Personalising a smart home or changing its applications and its interfaces dynamically as the user needs change was possible and has been demonstrated successfully in one house – the Gator Tech Smart House. Scaling up the platform technology approach to a planned living community is underway at one of UK’s National Health Services (NHS) Healthy New Town projects. Conclusions: There is a great need to integrate technology with living spaces to provide assistance and independent living, but to smarten these spaces for lifelong living, the technology and the smart home applications must be flexible, adaptive, and changeable over time. However, people do not just live at home, they live in communities. Looking at the big picture (communities), as well as the small (homes), we consider how to progress beyond smart-ready homes towards smart-ready communities.

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