Smart Collaborative Mobile System for Taking Care of Disabled and Elderly People

Abstract

Official statistics data show that in many countries the population is aging. In addition, there are several illnesses and disabilities that also affect a small sector of the population. In recent years, researchers and medical foundations are working in order to develop systems based on new technologies and enhance the quality of life of them. One of the cheapest ways is to take advantage of the features provided by the smartphones. Nowadays, the development of reduced size smartphones, but with high processing capacity, has increased dramatically. We can take profit of the sensors placed in smartphones in order to monitor disabled and elderly people. In this paper, we propose a smart collaborative system based on the sensors embedded in mobile devices, which permit us to monitor the status of a person based on what is happening in the environment, but comparing and taking decisions based on what is happening to its neighbors. The proposed protocol for the mobile ad hoc network and the smart system algorithm are described in detail. We provide some measurements showing the decisions taken for several common cases and we also show the performance of our proposal when there is a medium size group of disabled or elderly people. Our proposal can also be applied to take care of children in several situations.

Contextualization of motivations determining the continuance intention to use smart devices among people with physical disabilities

“…Within the previous studies, we can identify three broad areas of research. First, much academic attention has been given to the development of assistive technology geared toward the disabled population Hong and Min, 2015;Kim et al, 2013;Sendra et al, 2014;Varghese and Amudha, 2015). For example, 1 There has been a widespread debate regarding the use of person-first language and identity-first language in addressing individuals with disabilities.…”

Multimedia sensors embedded in smartphones for ambient assisted living and e-health

“…We can also find some works focused on adapting the mobile sensors to AAL and e-health applications. S. Sendra et al proposed [10] a smart collaborative system for taking care of elderly and disabled people. The system uses the sensors embedded in the smartphones.…”

An adaptive quantum genetic QoS routing algorithm for wireless sensor networks

“…Different kinds of methods based on GA have been put forward and successfully applied to related fields such as environmental monitoring [4] , animal tracking [5] , underwater communications [6] , and some other systems. In these methods, different strategies are used to improve the performance of the algorithm by designing more efficient encoding plans, better fitness functions, etc.…”