IoT for Ambient Assisted Living

2017 ◽  
pp. 66-97
Author(s):  
Fulvio Corno ◽  
Luigi De Russis ◽  
Alberto Monge Roffarello
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Living ◽  
User Study ◽  
Ambient Assisted Living ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Assisted Living Facilities ◽  
Literature Analysis ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Research activities on healthcare support systems mainly focus on people in their own homes or nurses and doctors in hospitals. A limited amount of research aims at supporting caregivers that work with people with disabilities in assisted living facilities (ALFs). This chapter explores and applies the Internet of Things to the ALF context. In particular, it presents the design, the implementation, and the experimental evaluation of Care4Me, a system supporting the daily activities of assistants. The requirements for designing and implementing Care4Me derive from a literature analysis and from a user study. The solution combines wearable and mobile technologies. With this healthcare support system, caregivers can be automatically alerted of potentially hazardous situations. Furthermore, inhabitants can require assistance instantly and from any point of the facility. The system was evaluated in two ways. The authors performed a functional test with a group of professional caregivers, and deployed the system in an ALF in Italy, collecting the opinions of caregivers and inhabitants.

IoT for Ambient Assisted Living

2018 ◽  
pp. 161-187
Author(s):  
Fulvio Corno ◽  
Luigi De Russis ◽  
Alberto Monge Roffarello
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Living ◽  
User Study ◽  
Ambient Assisted Living ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Assisted Living Facilities ◽  
Literature Analysis ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Research activities on healthcare support systems mainly focus on people in their own homes or nurses and doctors in hospitals. A limited amount of research aims at supporting caregivers that work with people with disabilities in assisted living facilities (ALFs). This chapter explores and applies the Internet of Things to the ALF context. In particular, it presents the design, the implementation, and the experimental evaluation of Care4Me, a system supporting the daily activities of assistants. The requirements for designing and implementing Care4Me derive from a literature analysis and from a user study. The solution combines wearable and mobile technologies. With this healthcare support system, caregivers can be automatically alerted of potentially hazardous situations. Furthermore, inhabitants can require assistance instantly and from any point of the facility. The system was evaluated in two ways. The authors performed a functional test with a group of professional caregivers, and deployed the system in an ALF in Italy, collecting the opinions of caregivers and inhabitants.

scholarly journals A Review of Internet of Things Technologies for Ambient Assisted Living Environments

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rytis Maskeliūnas ◽  
Robertas Damaševičius ◽  
Sagiv Segal
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Assisted Living ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Ambient Assisted Living ◽  
Global Network ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Virtual Objects ◽  
Acceptance Model ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The internet of things (IoT) aims to extend the internet to real-world objects, connecting smart and sensing devices into a global network infrastructure by connecting physical and virtual objects. The IoT has the potential to increase the quality of life of inhabitants and users of intelligent ambient assisted living (AAL) environments. The paper overviews and discusses the IoT technologies and their foreseen impacts and challenges for the AAL domain. The results of this review are summarized as the IoT based gerontechnology acceptance model for the assisted living domain. The model focuses on the acceptance of new technologies by older people and underscores the need for the adoption of the IoT for the AAL domain.

scholarly journals An Introduction to Patterns for the Internet of Robotic Things in the Ambient Assisted Living Scenario

Robotics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Bruno Andò ◽  
Luciano Cantelli ◽  
Vincenzo Catania ◽  
Ruben Crispino ◽  
Dario Calogero Guastella ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Living ◽  
Ambient Assisted Living ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Management Of Resources ◽  
Common Problems ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Novel Concept ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The Internet of Things paradigm envisions the interoperation among objects, people, and their surrounding environment. In the last decade, the spread of IoT-based solutions has been supported in various domains and scenarios by academia, industry, and standards-setting organizations. The wide variety of applications and the need for a higher level of autonomy and interaction with the environment have recently led to the rise of the Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT), where smart objects become autonomous robotic systems. As mentioned in the recent literature, many of the proposed solutions in the IoT field have to tackle similar challenges regarding the management of resources, interoperation among objects, and interaction with users and the environment. Given that, the concept of the IoT pattern has recently been introduced. In software engineering, a pattern is defined as a general solution that can be applied to a class of common problems. It is a template suggesting a solution for the same problem occurring in different contexts. Similarly, an IoT pattern provides a guide to design an IoT solution with the difference that the software is not the only element involved. Starting from this idea, we propose the novel concept of the IoRT pattern. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first attempt at pattern authoring in the Internet of Robotic Things context. We focus on pattern identification by abstracting examples also in the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) scenario. A case study providing an implementation of the proposed patterns in the AAL context is also presented and discussed.

Toward an efficient healthcare CloudIoT architecture by using a game theory approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Dyllon Jeronimo de Macedo ◽  
Gustavo Medeiros de Araújo ◽  
Moisés Lima Dutra ◽  
Silvana Toriani Dutra ◽  
Álvaro Guillermo Rojas Lezana
Keyword(s):  
Game Theory ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Assisted Living ◽  
Search Algorithm ◽  
Ambient Assisted Living ◽  
Stochastic Search ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Healthcare Applications ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The increasing adoption of the Internet of things and cloud computing in recent years provided the increasing development and improvement of various well-known approaches, such as the ambient assisted living approach. The merging of Internet of things and cloud brought about the so-called CloudIoT paradigm. CloudIoT intends to extend both technologies to make possible developing the next generation of smart environments, such as healthcare applications. New healthcare applications demand an increasing capacity of resources for storing, processing, and transmitting data. Looking at this scenario, along with the growing number of devices connected to the Internet of things, we must consider providing mechanisms to mitigate the excessive data offloading on the network, the latency between nodes, and even the unnecessary waste of computing power. In this article, we present an efficient and effective CloudIoT-based healthcare architecture for ambient assisted living environments. The innovation of our approach lies on the use of a game theory approach (by means of a stochastic search algorithm) to improve efficiency and latency of the CloudIoT network. This proposal aims to provide better availability levels to the whole environment. Experiments performed through simulation have shown us a remarkable improvement of network parameters, by applying a stochastic search algorithm called Gur game, when compared to a baseline application.

scholarly journals Rancang Bangun Jemuran Otomatis Menggunakan Mikrokontroller WEMOS

CAHAYAtech ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adetya Windiarto Makhmud ◽  
Tutus Praningki ◽  
Ira Luvi Indah
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Solar Energy ◽  
Light Intensity ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Drying clothes is one of the daily activities of people who use solar energy. With these conditions, people are very dependent on weather conditions that are sometimes erratic. One of the right ways is by utilizing technology, namely using an automatic clothesline using a Wemos D1Mini microcontroller, equipped with an LDR sensor that will read light intensity and the DHT11 sensor will read humidity and temperature around the environment. This tool is also based on the Internet of Things which can be accessed from anywhere as long as it is connected to the internet. Keyword: Microcontroller, LDR sensor, DHT11 sensor, Internet of Things.

Instrumenting the eHome and Preparing Elderly Pilots

2015 ◽  
pp. 335-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Panagiotis E. Antoniou ◽  
Evdokimos Konstantinidis ◽  
Antonis S. Billis ◽  
Giorgos Bamparopoulos ◽  
Marianna S. Tsatali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Living ◽  
Healthcare Costs ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Ambient Assisted Living ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
World Population ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
First World

In this chapter the lessons learnt from the build-up and integration of the USEFIL are demonstrated. First an introduction to Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) platforms, the infrastructure for eHomes of any purpose eHome is presented, in the context of their emergence as a viable way for managing healthcare costs in an aging first world population. Then technical and sustainability issues that are present after several years of maturation are touched upon. The USEFIL project's aim at an AAL platform that utilizes low cost “off-the-shelf” technologies in order to develop immediately applicable services, to assist elderly people in maintaining an independent, healthy lifestyle and program of daily activities is then briefly discussed. Afterwards, the methodological framework as well as principal results of the preparation and running of the pre-piloting phase of that platform are presented. Closing, current trends are explored in conjunction with future directions as triggered by this project in the context of cognitive impaired elderly support.

Barriers and Insights in Participant Recruitment in Assisted Living Facilities

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-121
Author(s):  
Michele D. Shropshire ◽  
Stephen J. Stapleton ◽  
Mary J. Dyck
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Living ◽  
Healthcare Personnel ◽  
Assisted Living Facilities ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Participant Recruitment ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Director Of Nursing ◽  
Interest In Research ◽  
Executive Administration ◽  
Reception Area

An estimated 1.2 million older adults nationwide currently reside in assisted/supportive living facilities, and research is required to continue to identify best outcomes in for their care. However, challenges exist. The aim of this paper is to address barriers and provide insights related to participant recruitment in assisted and supportive living facilities. Identified barriers included unproductive communication with reception area staff, a perceived lack of interest in research activity, and the inability of Director of Nursing (DON) to provide authorization for research activities. Recruitment insights included productive encounters with gatekeepers, establishing trust with executive administration and healthcare personnel, and research team persistence.

Future Aspects and Research Perspectives of the Internet of Things

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Harshit Bhardwaj ◽  
Pradeep Tomar ◽  
Aditi Sakalle ◽  
Taranjeet Singh ◽  
Divya Acharya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Fog Computing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Literature Analysis ◽  
Healthcare Applications ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Iot Applications ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Software Production ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Fog computing has latency, particularly for healthcare applications, which is of the utmost importance. This research aims to be a comprehensive literature analysis of healthcare innovations for fog computing. All of these components involved special abilities. In sequence, developers must be qualified to write stable, healthy IoT programs in four distinct fields of software production: embedded, server, tablet, and web-based. Furthermore, the distributed results, IoT structure essence, dispersed abilities in programming play a deciding position. This chapter discusses the difficulties in creating the IoT method and summarizing findings and observations. Experiences of the need for and co-presence of various kinds of skills in software creation in the construction of IoT applications are discussed.

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