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Indoor Activity Monitoring for Mutual Reassurance

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Population ageing is rising issues concerning the sustainability of older seniors assistance. A possible solution can be avoiding early retirement in nurse houses by providing the family and the senior(s) with an unobtrusive monitoring system, mainly based on motion sensors, capable of extending their independent living. The presented system processes the collected data to infer when the person exits and enters, his/her position inside the house, and the occupancy of the house areas. Such information is made available to the family through a set of purposefully designed graphical interfaces and prompt notifications. Preliminary results are satisfying, showing it is possible to restore Mutual Reassurance.

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  1. Politecnico di Milano, Polo Territoriale di Como, Via Anzani, 42, 22100, Como, Italy

    Fabio Veronese, Simone Mangano, Sara Comai, Matteo Matteucci & Fabio Salice

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  1. Università degli Studi di Padova, Padua, Italy

    Ombretta Gaggi

  2. Universitat Politècnica de Valéncia, Valencia, Spain

    Pietro Manzoni

  3. Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padua, Italy

    Claudio Palazzi

  4. Università degli Studi di Padova, Padua, Italy

    Armir Bujari

  5. Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Johann M. Marquez-Barja

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Veronese, F., Mangano, S., Comai, S., Matteucci, M., Salice, F. (2017). Indoor Activity Monitoring for Mutual Reassurance. In: Gaggi, O., Manzoni, P., Palazzi, C., Bujari, A., Marquez-Barja, J. (eds) Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good. GOODTECHS 2016. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 195. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61949-1_1

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