An “Assistance Over IP” Network for Monitoring and Support of Daily Living Activities

In this paper, a novel solution is proposed for the integration of safety, home assistance and monitoring tasks within a highly-hierarchical, distributed network architecture. All services are distributed over standard IP protocols, granting several advantages over dedicated home-networking approaches, in terms of costs, performance and choice of interoperable devices. Basic functions of the system include home control and safety; more advanced features allows for caregiving services and monitoring. Detailed activity profiles can be extracted in a non-invasive way, enabling ambient adaptivity and health monitoring. An experimental implementation of the system is presented as well.