Integrated Smart Home Services and Smart Wearable Technology for the Disabled and Elderly

Abstract

Smart Home is indeed a broad concept which includes the techniques and systems applied to living spaces. While its main goal is to reduce the consumption of energy, it provides many benefits including living in comfort, security and increasing flexibility. Smart homes are achieved through networking, control and automation technologies. Since smart homes offer more comfort and security and provide novel innovative services, people with disabilities or the elderly can take the advantages and improve their life quality. However, for such novel services, an analytical infrastructure which can manage overall data flow provided by various sensors, understand anomalous behaviour, and make necessary decisions. In this study, for efficient data handling and visualisation, an integrated smart service approach based on the use of a smart vest is proposed. The smart vest plays a key role in the proposed system since it provides the main health parameters of the monitored person to the smart home service and enables tracking of the monitored person's location. The proposed system offers many benefits to both people with disabilities and the elderly and their families in terms of increased efficiency of health care service and comfort for the monitored person. It can also reduce the cost of health care services by reducing the number of periodical visits.

Secure Web-Based Communication Framework for Smart Home Systems Designed for the Elderly and Disabled

“…Since they provide abilities to provide the special needs of the elderly and disabled, they play a key role in improving the quality of services provided by healthcare companies. Basically, smart homes typically consist of a control panel, a web-based remote management tool, a set of wireless/wired sensors and motion detectors, a set of audio-visual based systems, and a state-of-the art monitoring system supported by a set of machine learning algorithms and analytics (Gaddam, Mukhopadhyay and Gupta, 2010;Suryadevara and Mukhopadhyay, 2011;Tuna, Daş and Tuna, 2015). Smart home systems are generally installed and maintained in residential environments without any complexity and their components are either barely visible or almost invisible since the acceptance level of smart home automation systems is higher if invisible components are preferred (Gaddam, Mukhopadhyay and Gupta, 2010;Suryadevara and Mukhopadhyay, 2011).…”

“…Smart home systems are generally installed and maintained in residential environments without any complexity and their components are either barely visible or almost invisible since the acceptance level of smart home automation systems is higher if invisible components are preferred (Gaddam, Mukhopadhyay and Gupta, 2010;Suryadevara and Mukhopadhyay, 2011). Thanks to smart homes, data collected by distributed sensor nodes and audio-visual based systems enable monitoring the daily activities of inhabitants and learning the personal activity patterns (Gaddam, Mukhopadhyay and Gupta, 2010;Suryadevara and Mukhopadhyay, 2011;Lê, Nguyen and Barnett, 2012;Tuna, Daş and Tuna, 2015;Daş, Tuna and Tuna, 2015). As soon as the monitored patterns deviate from the patterns accepted as normal, an alert is generated to let both healthcare providers and family members take immediate actions (Jin Wang et al, 2014;Moutacalli et al, 2013;Jalal and Kamal, 2014;Jovanov et al, 2003).…”