ANGELAH: A Framework for Assisting Elders at Home
ANGELAH: A Framework for Assisting Elders at Home
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DOI：
10.1109/jsac.2009.090511
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发表时间：
2009-05-01
影响因子：
16.4
通讯作者：
Nait-Charif, Hammadi
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作者：
Taleb, Tarik;Bottazzi, Dario;Nait-Charif, Hammadi
现代社会中老年人的比例不断增加，使福利制度受到相应的压力。事实上，运动、感觉和/或认知技能的部分和进行性丧失使老年人无法自主生活，最终导致他们住院治疗。无处不在的计算技术可以为内部安全和自主提供有趣的机会。然而，现有的系统部分地解决了内部安全要求，并且通常仅关注老年人监测和紧急情况检测。本文介绍了一个集成了“老人监护和紧急检测”解决方案和网络解决方案的中间件级解决方案ANGELAH。ANGELAH有两个主要特点：i）可有效地整合家中部署的各种传感器和致动器，以进行紧急检测; ii）提供一个坚实的框架，以创建和管理由愿意在紧急情况下迅速协助长者的个人组成的救援队。ANGELAH的原型，旨在帮助视力障碍的老年人的案例研究，开发和有趣的结果，从计算机模拟和真实的网络测试床。
The ever growing percentage of elderly people within modern societies poses welfare systems under relevant stress. In fact, partial and progressive loss of motor, sensorial, and/or cognitive skills renders elders unable to live autonomously, eventually leading to their hospitalization. This results in both relevant emotional and economic costs.Ubiquitous computing technologies can offer interesting opportunities for in-house safety and autonomy. However, existing systems, partially address in-house safety requirements and typically focus on only elder monitoring and emergency detection. The paper presents ANGELAH, a middleware-level solution integrating both "elder monitoring and emergency detection" solutions and networking solutions. ANGELAH has two main features: i) it enables efficient integration between a variety of sensors and actuators deployed at home for emergency detection and ii) provides a solid framework for creating and managing rescue teams composed of individuals willing to promptly assist elders in case of emergency situations. A prototype of ANGELAH, designed for a case study for helping elders with vision impairments, is developed and interesting results are obtained from both computer simulations and a real-network testbed.