Abstract
The aim of this paper is to present the main results of HDOMO, an Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) project that involved 16 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and 2 research institutes. The objective of the project was to create an autonomous and automated domestic environment, primarily for elderly people and people with physical and motor disabilities. A known and familiar environment should help users in their daily activities and it should act as a virtual caregiver by calling, if necessary, relief efforts. Substantially, the aim of the project is to simplify the life of people in need of support, while keeping them autonomous in their private environment. From a technical point of view, the project provides the use of different Smart Objects (SOs), able to communicate among each other, in a cloud base infrastructure, and with the assisted users and their caregivers, in a perspective of interoperability and standardization of devices, usability and effectiveness of alarm systems. In the state of the art there are projects that achieve only a few of the elements listed. The HDOMO project aims to achieve all of them in one single project effectively. The experimental trials performed in a real scenario demonstrated the accuracy and efficiency of the system in extracting and processing data in real time to promptly acting, and in providing timely response to the needs of the user by integrating and confirming main alarms with different interoperable smart sensors. The article proposes a new technique to improve the accuracy of the system in detecting alarms using a multi-SO approach with information fusion between different devices, proving that this architecture can provide robust and reliable results on real environments.
Highlights
The project proposes an innovative idea of an interoperable embedded intelligent system where different low cost intelligent sensors can analyse human behaviours to promptly respond to the needs of users and to obtain statistical data useful for future processing
The main target was the development and the implementation of a platform for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) applications that starts from the integration of existing platforms and extends the concept of Smart Objects (SOs) interoperability
The project was financed by Marche Region and faces the challenge of developing different layers of abstraction using different SOs to obtain a very accurate alarm system for AAL
Summary
In the industrialized countries, society has been moving towards an important demographic change known as the ageing society This change is due to improve life expectancy, which causes the ageing of population. The creation of a smart environment offers new possibilities of integration but at the same time opens new challenges regarding the usability of products for people with disabilities [13,14,15]. The problems of accessibility are not yet well defined, since future lines of development of the information society are still open with regard to various aspects: type of technologies that will be used to build the new smart environment; type and nature of the new applications and services that will emerge; contexts of use which will extend the Information Society; strategies put in place to extend the use to all potential users.
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