Non-instrusive health monitoring

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Remote health and wellness monitoring has been a topic of interest in the field of public healthcare for almost a**decade, with advanced diagnostic solutions promising to shape our lifestyle, but so far falling short of**expectations. The rise of health wearable devices has brought a host of privacy challenges. While patients may**be willing to subject themselves to the inconvenience of wearing these technologies at all times, the average**users see them as invasive. In the case of fall detection notification, current state-of-the-art requires either the**persons actively triggering the devices to call for help after falls, or using positional sensing in the case of**mobile phone based devices to automate signaling for help. Video monitoring is rich in content but may be**intrusive. Regardless of accuracy and level of intrusiveness, all existing fall detection methods are limited to**detecting the fall and signalling for help, thereby rendering them simplistic and frequently inadequate for practical applications in fall detection, and more importantly, post-fall safety and fall prevention. Our proposed research seeks to develop a platform that links a unique non-intrusive video fall detection scheme with helper notification. Our system will not only work towards predicting fall before it happens and alert for help, identifying the possible origin of fall, but also associate the video signals with other sensor signals to improve accuracy of prediction. Our project will also address the judicious consideration of what relevant data to capture and retain in the person's health record to support wellness-in-home for that individual. This longitudinal tracking will also help to ascertain over time how the individual changes and how the smart environment should adapt to this change.****The proposed monitoring supports current Canada and BC emphasis on home wellness and presents an ideal Canada-based opportunity to assess its feasibility in synergy with traditional sensing to improve health care and health outcomes.