Autor(es):
Gama, Óscar 
; Simões, Ricardo
Data: 2013
Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/11110/311
Origem: CiencIPCA
Assunto(s): Ambient Assisted Living
Detalhes do Documento
A Platform to Emulate Ambient Assisted Living Environments
Descrição
According to the opinion of clinicians, emerging medical conditions can be timely detected by observing changes in the activities of daily living and/or in the physiological signals of a person. To accomplish such purpose, it is necessary to properly monitor both the person’s physiological signals as well as the home environment with sensing technology. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are a promising technology for this support. After receiving the data from the sensor nodes, a computer processes the data and extracts information to detect any abnormality. The computer runs algorithms that should have been previously developed and tested in real homes or in living-labs. However, these installations (and volunteers) may not be easily available. In order to get around that difficulty, this paper suggests the making of a physical model to emulate basic actions of a user at home, thus giving autonomy to researchers wanting to test the performance of their algorithms. This paper also studies some data communication issues in mobile WSNs namely how the orientation of the sensor nodes in the body affects the received signal strength, as well as retransmission aspects of a TDMA-based MAC protocol in the data recovery process. Project “AAL4ALL”, co-financed by the European Community Fund FEDER through COMPETE –Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade (POFC). Foundation for Science and Technology, Lisbon, through project PEst-C/CTM/LA0025/2011.
According to the opinion of clinicians, emerging medical conditions can be timely detected by observing changes in the activities of daily living and/or in the physiological signals of a person. To accomplish such purpose, it is necessary to properly monitor both the person’s physiological signals as well as the home environment with sensing technology. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are a promising technology for this support. After receiving the data from the sensor nodes, a computer processes the data and extracts information to detect any abnormality. The computer runs algorithms that should have been previously developed and tested in real homes or in living-labs. However, these installations (and volunteers) may not be easily available. In order to get around that difficulty, this paper suggests the making of a physical model to emulate basic actions of a user at home, thus giving autonomy to researchers wanting to test the performance of their algorithms. This paper also studies some data communication issues in mobile WSNs namely how the orientation of the sensor nodes in the body affects the received signal strength, as well as retransmission aspects of a TDMA-based MAC protocol in the data recovery process. Project “AAL4ALL”, co-financed by the European Community Fund FEDER through COMPETE –Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade (POFC). Foundation for Science and Technology, Lisbon, through project PEst-C/CTM/LA0025/2011.
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