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Summary The Information Technology for Assisted Living at Home project aims to create the systems and devices that will allow people the require assistance to live at home to do so with added confidence and security, and by the use of information technology allow this to be done in a cost effective manner that will allow for wider support with existing levels of human resources. The project investigates how to integrate the use of basic sensor technologies; Berkeley Motes; ZigBee and Bluetooth communication technology and mobile devices into a network suitable for building services for assisted living. Prototype Scenario The basic concept in the first prototype scenario is that each user has his own Home Health System that is able to monitor the health of a patient. The monitoring data is either gathered from sensors mounted directly at the user and transmitted through a mobile gateway e.g. fall detectors or bio-monitors. Or the monitored data can be from sensors monitored in the home and transmitted directly to the home health system. The user can grant other people access to the user’s health information e.g. relatives or the user can subscribe to a monitoring service that is able to respond if a person’s health data gets critical e.g. the blood pressure rises, a fall is detected. Figure 1 shows a schematic overview.  |
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