Services and Applications in an Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Environment

Burzagli, Laura; Fonzo, L. Di; Emiliani, Pier Luigi

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-07446-7_46

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“…Research groups, from all over the world, focus their attention on the AAL technologies, developing standards and platforms [2], offering different solutions, services and applications for remote monitoring [3] [4]. Some solutions are rapidly spreading in the society, becoming thus trending technologies.…”

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Fog computing system for monitoring Mild Dementia and COPD patients - Romanian case study

Peña¹,

Crăciunescu

Halunga

2015

2015 12th International Conference on Telecommunication in Modern Satellite, Cable and Broadcasting Services (TELSIKS)

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Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is a key element in improving the senior's lifestyle and in increasing their independence along with their quality of life. AAL implementation through ICT is a trending research area, especially in the remote monitoring field. One of the biggest issues of the monitoring systems is how they fit into the healthcare system of another country than the country of origin. In the article we present the Romanian healthcare regulations and procedures requirements, for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Mild Dementia patients, and we also present how a monitoring system, like eWALL, fits these requirements. This system is based on a computationaldistributed approach (in the manner of fog computing) to process the sensed information from the patient home environment in order to reduce the communications overload and to keep the privacy on the patient life.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fog computing system for monitoring Mild Dementia and COPD patients - Romanian case study

Peña¹,

Crăciunescu

Halunga

2015

2015 12th International Conference on Telecommunication in Modern Satellite, Cable and Broadcasting Services (TELSIKS)

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Automatic Analysis of Speech and Acoustic Events for Ambient Assisted Living

Karpov

Ronzhin

Kipyatkova

2015

Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Access to Interaction

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We present a prototype of an ambient assisted living (AAL) with multimodal user interaction. In our research, the AAL environment is one studio room of 60 + square meters that has several tables, chairs and a sink, as well as equipped with four stationary microphones and two omni-directional video cameras. In this paper, we focus mainly on audio signal processing techniques for monitoring the assistive smart space and recognition of speech and non-speech acoustic events for automatic analysis of human's activities and detection of possible emergency situations with the user (when an emergent help is needed). Acoustical modeling in our audio recognition system is based on single order Hidden Markov Models with Gaussian Mixture Models. The recognition vocabulary includes 12 non-speech acoustic events for different types of human activities plus 5 useful spoken commands (keywords), including a subset of alarm audio events. We have collected an audio-visual corpus containing about 1.3 h of audio data from 5 testers, who performed proposed test scenarios, and made the practical experiments with the system, results of which are reported in this paper.

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