HoTAAL: Home of social things meet ambient assisted living

Abstract

Population ageing is a global phenomena demanding novel technological developments as a result of increased healthcare costs and wishes of older people to stay in their own homes for longer. Combining the ubiquity of Internet connectivity in homes with pervasive and intelligent sensors to exploit user interactions with everyday home appliances create the possibility to build a new generation of assistive technologies for smart homes. We present a demonstration of HoTAAL (Home of Things for Ambient Assisted Living) where appliances exhibit seamless social interactions with each other and older people to provide assistance with daily living activities, especially in meal preparation tasks. These technologies are unobtrusive and able to coherently interconnect with older people in a naturalistic manner.

Ambient Assisted Living: A Review of Technologies, Methodologies and Future Perspectives for Healthy Aging of Population

“…The first signs of cognitive disorders are often easily seen in behaving variations during meal preparation or cooker handling. Some common appliances, such as refrigerators, microwaves, and cooktops, are interconnected with each other to provide assistance in meal preparation tasks [64]. Furthermore, specific conditions, such as the presence of objects on cookers, the presence of lids on the pots, and the liquid level in the pots, can be monitored during the cooking process [65].…”

Passive RFID Module With LSTM Recurrent Neural Network Activity Classification Algorithm for Ambient-Assisted Living

“…The proposed system is evaluated within the context of the smart kitchen. Jayatilaka et al proposed the Home of Things for AAL (HoTAAL) solution [21]. In [21], appliances are developed to support unobtrusive, seamless social interactions with the elderly to assist them with ADL with a focus on meal preparation.…”

“…Jayatilaka et al proposed the Home of Things for AAL (HoTAAL) solution [21]. In [21], appliances are developed to support unobtrusive, seamless social interactions with the elderly to assist them with ADL with a focus on meal preparation. Wan et al in [22] proposed the Cummulately Overlapping windowing approach for amBient recognition of activities (COBRA) system.…”