Tools for behavior monitoring: An ambient assisted living real experience

Abstract

In recent years, sophisticated technologies for personal monitoring are rapidly spreading. Mainly, these devices are medical sensors for domestic use, that allow for monitoring the most important physiological parameters. These smart devices enable to detect information closely related to the user’s health. Despite the effectiveness of these tools, such approaches do not allow for the detection of the personal wellness state, in a wider sense. From this point of view, more information can be detected by the analysis of user’s behavior. Especially in the case of elderly users, changes of behavior may be clues of situation of uneasiness or worsening of health condition. To support the monitoring of wellness conditions, tools and techniques for behavioral analysis have been developed at Information Engineering Department of University of Parma (ITALY). In this paper, a non-invasive and cost-effective technology is presented: the CARDEAdomus Ambient Assisted Living System. Eventually, results related to a experimentation, carried out by means of the System in a real context, are showed.