This paper introduces technical solutions devised to support the Deployment Site - Regione Emilia Romagna (DS-RER) of the ACTIVAGE project. The ACTIVAGE project aims at promoting IoT (Internet of Things)-based solutions for Active and Healthy ageing. DS-RER focuses on improving continuity of care for older adults (65+) suffering from aftereffects of a stroke event. A Wireless Sensor Kit based on Wi-Fi connectivity was suitably engineered and realized to monitor behavioral aspects, possibly relevant to health and wellbeing assessment. This includes bed/rests patterns, toilet usage, room presence and many others. Besides hardware design and validation, cloud-based analytics services are introduced, suitable for automatic extraction of relevant information (trends and anomalies) from raw sensor data streams. The approach is general and applicable to a wider range of use cases; however, for readability's sake, two simple cases are analyzed, related to bed and toilet usage patterns. In particular, a regression framework is introduced, suitable for detecting trends (long and short-term) and labeling anomalies. A methodology for assessing multi-modal daily behavioral profiles is introduced, based on unsupervised clustering techniques. The proposed framework has been successfully deployed at several real-users' homes, allowing for its functional validation. Clinical effectiveness will be assessed instead through a Randomized Control Trial study, currently being carried out.

IoT-based home monitoring: Supporting practitioners’ assessment by behavioral analysis / Mora, N.; Grossi, F.; Russo, D.; Barsocchi, P.; Hu, R.; Brunschwiler, T.; Michel, B.; Cocchi, F.; Montanari, E.; Nunziata, S.; Matrella, G.; Ciampolini, P.. - In: SENSORS. - ISSN 1424-8220. - 19:14(2019), p. 3238. [10.3390/s19143238]

IoT-based home monitoring: Supporting practitioners’ assessment by behavioral analysis

Mora N.;Montanari E.;Matrella G.;Ciampolini P.
2019-01-01

Abstract

This paper introduces technical solutions devised to support the Deployment Site - Regione Emilia Romagna (DS-RER) of the ACTIVAGE project. The ACTIVAGE project aims at promoting IoT (Internet of Things)-based solutions for Active and Healthy ageing. DS-RER focuses on improving continuity of care for older adults (65+) suffering from aftereffects of a stroke event. A Wireless Sensor Kit based on Wi-Fi connectivity was suitably engineered and realized to monitor behavioral aspects, possibly relevant to health and wellbeing assessment. This includes bed/rests patterns, toilet usage, room presence and many others. Besides hardware design and validation, cloud-based analytics services are introduced, suitable for automatic extraction of relevant information (trends and anomalies) from raw sensor data streams. The approach is general and applicable to a wider range of use cases; however, for readability's sake, two simple cases are analyzed, related to bed and toilet usage patterns. In particular, a regression framework is introduced, suitable for detecting trends (long and short-term) and labeling anomalies. A methodology for assessing multi-modal daily behavioral profiles is introduced, based on unsupervised clustering techniques. The proposed framework has been successfully deployed at several real-users' homes, allowing for its functional validation. Clinical effectiveness will be assessed instead through a Randomized Control Trial study, currently being carried out.
2019
IoT-based home monitoring: Supporting practitioners’ assessment by behavioral analysis / Mora, N.; Grossi, F.; Russo, D.; Barsocchi, P.; Hu, R.; Brunschwiler, T.; Michel, B.; Cocchi, F.; Montanari, E.; Nunziata, S.; Matrella, G.; Ciampolini, P.. - In: SENSORS. - ISSN 1424-8220. - 19:14(2019), p. 3238. [10.3390/s19143238]
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