Enabling affordable and efficiently deployed location based smart home systems

Issue title: Smart Environments: Technology to Support Healthcare

Guest editors: Dewar D. Finlay

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Kelly, Damian^{a; *} | McLoone, Sean^a | Dishongh, Terry^b

Affiliations: [a] Electronic Engineering Department, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland | [b] Digital Health Group, Intel Ireland, Leixlip, Kildare, Ireland

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected].

Abstract: With the obvious eldercare capabilities of smart environments it is a question of “when”, rather than “if”, these technologies will be routinely integrated into the design of future houses. In the meantime, health monitoring applications must be integrated into already complete home environments. However, there is significant effort involved in installing the hardware necessary to monitor the movements of an elder throughout an environment. Our work seeks to address the high infrastructure requirements of traditional location-based smart home systems by developing an extremely low infrastructure localisation technique. A study of the most efficient method of obtaining calibration data for an environment is conducted and different mobile devices are compared for localisation accuracy and cost trade-off. It is believed that these developments will contribute towards more efficiently deployed location-based smart home systems.

DOI: 10.3233/THC-2009-0549

Journal: Technology and Health Care, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 221-235, 2009