PRE2018 4 Group5
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Group members
| Group Members | Student nr. |
| Erik Wubbels | 0917805 |
| Peter Visser | 0877628 |
| Jeroen Bakermans | 1007330 |
| Bas van Kampen | 1236216 |
Planning
To Do
Abstract
All robot ideas
Our brainstorm ideas:
- (Using datasets from Eindhoven for) IoT actuation throughout the city.
- Mobile Cloud Robotics as a service with OCCIware
- Robots to help elderly and physically impaired people with daily tasks
- Learning with augmented reality glasses / AI mentor
- Consumer dental x-ray scanner device (+service), from home
- wearable for elderly people to quickly arrange quick responders in case of falling
Initial problem description
This subject of this project is supporting elderly people living their live independently by assisting them with a wearable AI device. The great strides in the rise in longevity of people, have resulted in an ageing populations in most developed economies. This developed creates new challenges, for the individual as well as society. Many individuals want to live as independently as possible, but their physical and/or mental impairments make that more difficult. It is also difficult for their loved ones, since dangerous situations arise. For both individuals, their families as society as a whole, the associated increase in healthcare costs is a challenge. One of the big problems for all involved is falling. Elderly people are more likely to fall for biological reasons, and their falls can cause bigger damage as well. Additionally, for elderly people it is more risky to undergo surgery, and recovery (such as learning to walk again) is more difficult - for more feeble individuals surgery is not even possible, resulting in a big permanent disability and pain. With more elderly people living on their own, instead of in retirement homes, there is a bigger risk of people lying helplessly on the floor for hours or longer. This is a horrible experience, and it can increase injuries, and even result in death in extreme cases.
This project started with the objective to support these elderly individuals, as well as their families and hence society as a whole, by developing a wearable device to detect falling, and notify people about it. This is a solution in the core of robotics: it combines a device with various mechanical aspects, interaction with the environment, and autonomous behavior. We want to minimize negative health consequences of getting older through measuring activities and presenting feedback
A wider range of problems our elderly users face has been identified and incorporated into the objectives for the proposed device:
- measuring health-parameters and (earlier) diagnosing of diseases and injuries:
-- automatic fall detection
-- PPG: measuring of blood flow and oxygen-levels, to detect and monitor cardiovascular, respiratory diseases
-- heart-attack detection
-- sleep (problems)
-- breath analyses
- GPS-tracking / Bluetooth to prevent wandering
- context-aware medicine planning/reminders
- exercise training with feedback
USE aspects
Users
Primary users The elderly who want to enjoy the use of this device. They will engage the most with this device. So the interface should be respectively easy to understand. However, the device should work mostly autonomous. So the primary users should not have to interact that much with the device. Voice control can be a good option to make the interface easier to understand. Other than learning what every button does is voice control rather straightforward. The elderly want to know for sure that the device works perfectly. Another issue elderly tend to have is that they want the device to be fashionable or nice to see. They do not necessarily want that everybody directly sees that they have a device that detects if they are falling.
Secondary users These users can be defined as the people around the elderly, for example the family, neighbours and other caregivers. They want the device to be as reliable and accurate as possible too. The same as the primary users. Furthermore they do not want that many false positives because otherwise they are always connected which can be irritating. other aspects one can think about are that the location should be accurate. So that the caregivers can be there as fast as possible.
Tertiary users The tertiary users can be defined as the Healthcare institutions and repairmen. They do not have much demands. Some demands could be that it should be easy to repair.
Advantages of a fall detector
Within the community of older adults falling is a big problem. The elderly population keeps on rising and one-third of the older adults experiences at least one fall or more each year. It is one of the most expensive costs in medical care. One can think of for example a new hip which is not an exception with elderly. These costs where, in 2015, $31 billion for Medicare. Which is in the United States but (in the whole world the ratio keeps somewhat the same). One can imagine if one has fallen and alarm cannot be hitted quickly the user is not even helped for a long period of time. This can have bad consequences because the condition keeps on getting worse. It is for the best that help is at the scene quickly. When elderly do not have some kind of insurance that someone is going to help them when they have fallen, a fear of falling can be created. This results in negative consequences, for example avoidance of activities in daily live. A consequence of avoiding these activities is then again less physical activity for the elderly, which could on its turn lead to depression and loneliness. There has been a study, by Brownsel et all, to establish what the relation is between a fall detector and fear of falling. The result of this study was that elderly indeed showed more confidence when they were monitored by a fall detector. So fear of falling was reduced. Another conclusion that was drawn from this study is that the fear of falling is affected by the user perception of the reliability and accuracy of the fall detector. So for our research its important to reassure that the device has a high reliability and accuracy.
Ways to achieve this goal:
- Promo movies
- Show percentages on how accurate
- False positives better than false negatives
- ….
Society
Independent living is important on this day. The world's older people population is growing at a high speed. So the costs to take care of these elderly people increases also. The nursery homes cannot cope with the speed of the increasing population. resulting in letting elderly people who cannot live independent anymore, live independent.
Enterprise
Living safely independent reduces costs for hospitals and healthcare institutions. Accidents will happen less and when an accident occurs it can be addressed quicker resulting in faster care for the user and probably reduced costs because damage can be fixed faster and in an earlier stage.
RPCs
Requirements
- accurate fall detection: take care of false positives
- good battery life and easy replacement
- Efficient energy consumption
- Easy to wear
- User interface that suits elderly users
- voice-control
- gathering and analysing data through cloud and distributing power and information efficiently
Preferences
- option to turn off during sleep
- lockers with medicine and timed-release and check
Constraints
- wearable for feeble people
- limited time (7 weeks)
- 600 hours of work
- severe budgets constraints
- least amount of possible devices, preferably one
Deliverables
Prototype
Due to the constraints this project will focus on measuring only one of the health-objectives that have been discussed in the problem description. This allows for specialization in measuring and analyzing such data. Furthermore it gives us time, as well as data, to test our device's functioning as a platform that connects to the cloud, and gives feedback.
In short: A physical prototype that measures falling, sends the data to the cloud for analysis, and delivers feedback to the user (and caregivers).
Wiki page
Needs to be updated weekly, and in the end give a clear and good overview of the project.
Presentation
In week 8
State of the art
AI supported living for elderly
The Elderly’s Independent Living in Smart Homes: A Characterization of Activities and Sensing Infrastructure Survey to Facilitate Services Development
Source: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/15/5/11312
Summary: an systematic review on ai-support for elderly people, it is about smarthomes, but we can adapt this to our wearable device. The analysis-unit / building block is ‘activity’, to which particular measurements and assistance-forms can be applied. The right kind of sensors, preprocessing and evaluation need to be chosen. This article has a classification of main activities of elderly people living independently, and suitable sensors and data processing for these.
Related: ai-system that uses constraint‐based scheduling technology to actively monitor a pattern of activities executed by the person. Detects temporal constraint violations which are used to trigger meaningful and contextualized proactive interactions:
https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.dianus.libr.tue.nl/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-8640.2010.00372.x?sid=worldcat.org
Integrated e-Healthcare System for Elderly Support
Source: https://link-springer-com.dianus.libr.tue.nl/article/10.1007%2Fs12559-015-9367-3
Summary: An unobtrusive integrated e-healthcare system for elderly support (gerontech) for monitoring biomedical parameters of a person in real time, anywhere and in any situation. The data is send to a smartphone or tablet, and can be shared with care-takers. Continunous monitoring gives a wealth of health-data-history for better diagnosing and preventive care, as well as quicker response in emergencies. It also discusses the easy use of contacting medical assistance / consultation from home, which is useful for elderly people with walking disabilities.
Current progress of photoplethysmography and SPO2 for health monitoring
Source: https://link-springer-com.dianus.libr.tue.nl/article/10.1007%2Fs13534-019-00097-w
Summary: A photoplethysmograph (PPG) is a simple medical device for monitoring blood flow and transportation of substances in the blood. It consists of a light source and a photodetector for measuring transmitted and reflected light signals. Clinically, PPGs are used to monitor the pulse rate, oxygen saturation, blood pressure, and blood vessel stiffness. Wearable unobtrusive PPG monitors are commercially available.
This article reviews the issues and applications for monitoring oxygen saturation, such as detection and monitoring of cardiovascular disease(s), sleeping disorders, respiratory diseases. Some can be avoided by these (daily) measurements. The measurements are not very robust, so patients need to be explained very well how to do them correctly.
An autonomous robotic exercise tutor for elderly people
Source: https://link-springer-com.dianus.libr.tue.nl/article/10.1007%2Fs10514-016-9598-5
Summary: Interesting application of using ai – here of a physical robot, not just a wearable device – to help elderly people learn new physical exercises, and to help them train more. ‘ambient assisted living’ is the notion to sustain the mental and physical health of elderly people in the comfort of their own homes. Perhaps we could replace the robot with an instructional videos on tv or laptop or tablet, and the placement of a camera to observe the motions of the elderly trainee, while using our device to measure the activities and use the ai-aspect to interact by providing feedback.
Related: review article about the benefits of training for elderly people, and specifically what kind of exercises are useful:
https://link-springer-com.dianus.libr.tue.nl/article/10.1007%2Fs40520-017-0863-z
Medicine Reminder and Monitoring System for Secure Health Using IoT
Source: https://www-sciencedirect-com.dianus.libr.tue.nl/science/article/pii/S1877050916000922
Summary: This article shows how medicine reminders and monitoring systems that are hooked up to the Internet of Things (IoT) can be beneficial for prescribing the correct medication to patients. It also provides possible ways that these systems can work. Monitoring medicine intake of the users allows doctors to have insight in the users commitment to the medication, and to decide whether or not the medicine is working properly. The reminders also prevent accidental skipping of medicine intake that may be caused by dementia or similar reasons, and the financial factor that this skipping may induce (for example, changing to more expensive medicine while this is not actually needed). The data of the medicine intake patterns of the users can be stored on the cloud (provided that the connection made is secure, as to not corrupt the data). This data can later be accessed by the user and by doctors to review past activity�
AI empowered context-aware smart system for medication adherence
Source: https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108/IJCS-07-2017-0006
Summary: This article discussing the downside of many (proposed) electronic pillboxes, which use often use time-based reminders. However, these reminders can come at inopportune moments for the pill taker, resulting in suboptimal medication adherence. This article proposes a method of AI-empowered, context-aware reminders. From measurements of the user and the/his environment. This can integrated into our device very well, it seems, only the/a electronic pillbox is optional, although most elderly people have prescription medication, so it is not that strange of an option to pay attention to in our development.
Recognition of Activities of Daily Living with Egocentric Vision: A Review
source: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/16/1/72/html
Relevance: Sensor using camera. Helping to support the egocentric view. It uses a model based on different stages.
Can be intrusive due to camera's monitoring users behavior. So think about possible privacy complaints. Not the best option'
Wearable and Portable eHealth Systems
Source: https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.dianus.libr.tue.nl/document/4312668/references#references
Relevance: Different studies on personal health measuring systems(PHMS)
The validity and reliability of consumer-grade activity trackers in older, community-dwelling adults: A systematic review
Source: https://www-sciencedirect-com.dianus.libr.tue.nl/science/article/pii/S0378512218301828
Short summary & relevance: How good do these trackers work. Errors are measured when elderly people walk slow, however overall the results where highly accurate. Food to think about regards which tracker system is best for different kind of users. Users with certain chronic disorders have multiple dips in their activity, so not always true. However using these kind of step-wise trackers to self monitor the physical activity of the user is a good idea. It is important to keep these users active, especially elderly, because it is one of the biggest strategies to reduce age-related morbidity.
Multimodal Wearable Sensing for Fine-Grained Activity Recognition in Healthcare
Source: https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.dianus.libr.tue.nl/document/7155432
Relevance:
A multimodal system. Using different sensors, think about accelerator and gyroscope, to sense the user its position. GPS and Bluetooth beacons to detect someones position. Important to distinguish between different scenarios. Although the sensors can detect if a person is sitting or standing it has to distinguish the difference between for example sitting on the ground, which could be a sign of a bad situation(falling), or sitting on a sofa. So at this moment only basic ADLs can be distinguished. A way to get rid of this problem is to use a camera. However, a lot of users do not prefer this solution due to the privacy that is been violated, constant recording of what you are doing.
In the table beneath are some other studies which uses different sensors to sense the different attributes of the users.
Fall detection
Emergency Fall Incidents Detection in Assisted Living Environments Utilizing Motion, Sound, and Visual Perceptual Components
Source: https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.dianus.libr.tue.nl/document/5623343
Summary: This article discusses an advanced system with various sensors and processing to measure and verify falling, accessing the severity of the situation and arranging suitable help. The method uses semantic representation of the patient's status, context and rules-based evaluation, and advanced classification. The article also discusses various advanced classification techniques that have been and their accuracy and efficiency in detecting an emergency situation.
Inertial Sensing-Based Pre-Impact Detection of Falls Involving Near-Fall Scenarios
Source: https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.dianus.libr.tue.nl/document/6905812
Summary: This article discussed two improvements of ‘general’ accelerometer fall-detection. First, it includes ‘near-fall’ scenarios in its analysis. Second, it uses a different way to measure near-fall and fall scenarios, a vertical velocity-based pre-impact fall detection method using a wearable inertial sensor. The conclusion is that this detection method was more accurate in their own experiment, compared to an accelerometer, in detecting fall scenarios from near-fall scenarios. In other words, this method is claimed to solve the issue of ‘false positives’ that ‘mere’ accelerometers have.
Related: This article has a good introduction about fall detection, with many useful references: https://link-springer-com.dianus.libr.tue.nl/article/10.1007%2Fs10015-017-0409-7
Related: increase accuracy with barometric measurements: https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.dianus.libr.tue.nl/document/5559476
Related: increase accuracy with surface electromyography: https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.dianus.libr.tue.nl/document/6399498
Analysis of Public Datasets for Wearable Fall Detection Systems
Source : https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/17/7/1513/html
Relevance: In the study they looked at different datasets and compared them regarding the fall data. At the end the conclusion was that it is very difficult to determine an abstract and invariant threshold to detect falling. It is important to establish the different Activity of daily lives (ADLs) in the evaluation of the fall detecting systems FDS. So to sum up, movements should be put into groups of the same mobility to properly detect it with a sensor like an accelarotor in combination with a gyroscoop.
Fall Detection Using Smartphone Audio Features
Source: https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.dianus.libr.tue.nl/document/7093113
Summary: This study explores the best ways of using audio features of a smartphone to detect a fall. A database of different smartphone recordings (some recordings of falling sounds, some recordings of none-falling sounds) was processed in MATLAB to obtain the spectrogram of the recordings. Then four ways of recognizing falling sounds were explored: K-Nearest Neighbor Classifier, Support Vector Machine, Least Square Method, and Artificial Neural Network. Results of the study show that Artificial Neural Networks were the most successful in recognizing falling sounds, with an accuracy of above 98%.
Fall Detection Monitoring Systems
Source: https://link-springer-com.dianus.libr.tue.nl/article/10.1007%2Fs12652-017-0592-3#Sec2
Summary: This article covers multiple types of fall detection monitoring systems. It divides the system into three categories: wearable systems, ambient systems and camera systems. Some properties of the system are summarized in the table below.
Wearable systems are our main focus, so only wearable systems will be discussed further. Wearable systems generally use embedded sensors to monitor movement of a person. These sensors are usually accelerometers. The article also mentions that smartphones can be used as sensors to detect motion. Advantages of using a smartphone include the fact that most smartphones have a lot of sensors built in, including accelerometers, gyroscopes, proximity sensors, etc. Problems of using a smartphone include poor battery life and real-time processing speed (compared to committed systems).
Current disadvantages of wearable systems include:
- Wearable systems can be intrusive.
- Wearable systems can run out of power (since they are all battery powered).
- If microcontrollers are used, the software cannot be updated. (Smartphones don’t have this problem.)
- Most microcontrollers implement only threshold classification, which means they don’t learn from their mistakes. (Machine learning algorithms solve this.)
- Wearable systems lack context, which allows more false positives to be generated compared to other types of systems.
Continuous Heart Rate Monitoring using Smartphone
Source: https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.dianus.libr.tue.nl/document/8053379
Summary: In this article, a method to continuously monitor heart rate is explored. The article mentions an existing method to measure the heart rate using the light and camera of a smartphone. This method records the blood flow in the finger of the user and detects the heart rate based on the blood flow. For continuous monitoring, this is not practical. In this article, an embedded system is developed to allow continuous monitoring. The system uses a sensor that converts biopotential analog measurements, made by electrode pads, to digital output signals that can be processed more easily. The signal passes through a microcontroller, which detects when heartbeats occur. During a 10 second time period, the amount of beats are tracked. After this period, the data is extrapolated to calculate the heart rate of the user. This data can be communicated to a smartphone via bluetooth, wifi, etc. A systematic overview of the program is shown below.
While this method of monitoring heart rate is very simple and effective, the design that the authors of this article came up with is not fit for continuous use. An improvement in design is necessary to make the system usable.
Wearable Heart Monitor Catches Undiagnosed Atrial Fibrillation
Source: https://search-proquest-com.dianus.libr.tue.nl/docview/2074920876
Summary: The results of this study show that wearable heart monitors are capable of catching undiagnosed heart disease in patients. The information was collected in real-world settings and the device does not interfere with day-to-day routines of patients and doctors. The used device is an FDA-approved electrocardiogram (ECG) monitor, the wireless iRhythm ZioXT patch. The patches are able to detect the disease before symptoms show.
Portable breath monitoring: A new frontier in personalized health care
Source: http://interface.ecsdl.org.dianus.libr.tue.nl/content/25/4/63.full.pdf+html?sid=df2bbd55-8488-451b-9960-ea27c47f12ee
Summary: Portable breath monitoring is a way to analyze the user’s health by inspecting the composition of the user’s breath. Breath consists of many different molecules. A deviation of the average breath composition may indicate a problem in the user’s health. Often, knowing what molecule is excessively present in a person's breath allow doctors to make an immediate link to a certain physiological problem or a disease. (A table with examples of this is given below.)
Sensors that can measure the amount of a certain molecule have been miniaturized to the point where they fit onto a 3 by 4 millimeter board. This means that breath analyzers can now be made portable very easily. As soon as enough breath profiles are collected for certain diseases, breath monitoring can be standardized as a method to identify diseases. In addition, breath analysis could be critical in emergency situations where the patients are unable to report their condition, or in early stages of lung injury, disease or toxic exposure.
Non-academic but useful sources about the problem of elderly people falling
Elderly people fall quicker (biology) https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/what-causes-falls
Falling is more dangerous for an elderly person, also because they often cannot undergo surgery. (medicine) https://www.msdmanuals.com/home/older-people%E2%80%99s-health-issues/falls/falls-in-older-people
Falling elderly people is a real problem, in the US 1 in 4 falls every year! More facts about the size of the problem: (healthcare and social costs) https://www.cdc.gov/homeandrecreationalsafety/falls/adultfalls.html
Cloud Computing
Mobile Cloud Robotics as a Service with OCCIware
Philippe Merle-Christophe Gourdin-Nathalie Mitton - 2017 IEEE International Congress on Internet of Things (ICIOT) - 2017. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8039054
Summary: This study proposes combining of cloud computing and robotics into a system called Open Mobile Cloud Robotics Interface (OMCRI). Using an extension of Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI), a standard and gateway for hosting mobile robot resources. Then it illustrates the use of these technologies in three off-the-shelf robots: Lego Mindstorm NXT, Turtlebot, and Parrot AR. Drone.
Cloud robotics: Current status and open issues
Jiafu Wan-Shenglong Tang-Hehua Yan-Di Li-Shiyong Wang-Athanasios Vasilakos - IEEE Access - 2016. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7482658
Summary: Taking a deeper look into the combining of cloud computing and robotics this study analyzes the subject while looking at combining multi-robot systems with improved energy efficiency, high real-time performance and low cost. And finally showing potential value of these systems through different practical applications. Big data, cloud computing, open source resources, cooperative robot learning, and network connectivity are the major technologies being analyzed.
A High Reliability Wearable Device for Elderly Fall Detection
Paola Pierleoni-Alberto Belli-Lorenzo Palma-Marco Pellegrini-Luca Pernini-Simone Valenti - IEEE Sensors Journal - 2015. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7087338
Summary: The study proposes a fall detection system consisting of an inertial unit that includes triaxial accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer with efficient data fusion and fall detection algorithms.They discuss different solutions and their pros and cons. Then they explain the measuring solutions they used, for detecting a fall through the measuring of the human body as well as the measuring the acceleration and orientation of the person using it. The device they describe is worn at the belt to provide undisturbed movement to the person using it.
It then goes on to discuss the different algorithms they tested and compare their reliability and performance to each other.
An overview of wearable applications for healthcare: requirements and challenges
Vivian Motti-Kelly Caine - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers - UbiComp '15 - 2015. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2809436
Summary: This article goes into the combination of mobile applications within wearable devices. Discussing seven examples of the applications that have been put to practice as well as the challenges they still bring within healthcare. Particularly focused on promoting healthcare and behavior change. Going into the intuitiveness of interfaces, privacy control, customizability, data collection, data analysis and encouragement.
A Study On Cloud Robotics Architecture, Challenges and Applications
G. Arunajyothi- - International Journal Of Engineering And Computer Science - 2016. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6201212
Summary: The study looks at the capabilities of shared information and computation through a cloud robotic architecture. Proposing machine-to-machine (M2M) communication combined with a machine-to-cloud (M2C) communication, making it possible to increase efficiency among the machines as well as sharing different appliances through the cloud.They propose the protocols for these technologies and something they call Elastic Cloud Computing Architecture with three different models: Peer-Based, Proxy-Based and Clone-Based. They go on to discuss the communications challenges and minimizing loss of a message through delay as well as potential security risks due to it being in the cloud, proposing different protocols.
Reliable MAC design for ambient assisted living: moving the coordination to the cloud
Source: https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.dianus.libr.tue.nl/document/7010519
Relevance: Talks about ways to use cloud computing to enhance ambient assisted living(AAL). Ways to transform information from wearable(s).
Measurements
Analysis
Audio Analysis
Recordings of audio can be processed to obtain the spectrogram of the recording. Frequency analysis can determine whether or not a recording is of a falling sound. There are multiple ways to do this. Study has shown that creating an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to analyse the spectrograms is the most reliable method. [1] The ANN consists of a set of nodes that give weighted output, and finally arrive at two final nodes. One of these final nodes gives the correlation of the audio to a falling event, the other node gives the correlation to a non-falling event. The study shows that the sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of this method are all over 98%.
There are limitations to audio analysis. First of all, the recordings always have to be compared to example recordings of falling sounds, so if a person falls in a different way than any of the provided reference recordings, the system will not recognize the fall. Secondly, the system may recognize the sound of falling objects as that of a falling person. Lastly, the environment has a big influence on the recordings. If the environment is noisy, a method like blind signal separation may be used to isolate the sounds of events and remove background noise, but there is a limit to how noisy the environment can be before the systems stops working properly.
Implementation
To implement this method, the system has to be trained with training data to learn what recordings of falling people sound like. Codes for ANNs already exist, so these do not have to be programmed. (Note that if these systems are intended to be commercially used, it may be beneficial to program these anyway in order to adapt and optimize the code for this specific situation. For a prototype, codes for Arduino based ANNs are available. [2] )
All we need to do is to find a database with falling sounds and sounds that have a similar spectrogram but are not falling sounds, and label them with the correct answer (falling or non-falling). Then, after feeding them into the ANN, the program should be able to recognize falling sounds.
Accelerometer
An accelerometer is a device that measures acceleration. A falling event can be recognized by a sudden peak in the magnitude of the acceleration, given by the formula below. This is caused by the sudden deceleration in the vertical direction when the person or object hits the ground. The velocity goes from relatively high to 0 almost instantly, meaning the acceleration is some large negative number.
A method of detecting falling events is by applying a threshold to the acceleration magnitude. If this threshold is reached, the event will be labeled as a falling event. This method needs context in order to determine whether or not an event is a falling event. Jumping, for example, will also cause a sudden peak in the magnitude of acceleration upon landing.
An additional method that can be implemented using an accelerometer is fall detection based on rotation. [3] Since human motion generally has low acceleration, it is possible to get the gravity component in each axis by using a low pass filter. If the direction of the gravity component can be obtained before and after a potential fall event, the rotation can be calculated and can help determine if an actual fall was detected. A schematic overview of this idea can be seen below.
This feature may also be implemented using a gyroscope, which is specifically designed to measure rotation.
Cloud
When the wearable is activated to register a fall from a user, the device will send a message to a central server that will allocate the message to the right person/organization, being a neighbour or family, depending on the severity of the situation.
Many existing IoT applications are using Zigbee or Bluetooth for communication. Though with IPv6, WiFi has become a viable alternative (extra explanation needed on headers, multiple devices etc.)
A challenge with this is security, as you don’t want anyone from outside the system to be tracking or getting the data from the server or the devices. To accomplish this, several precaution measures are to be taken.
IPv6 takes part of this due to aforementioned reasons. Extra measures taken to make it secure is ensure an ssl connection through https.
Then there needs to be a form of authentication on the device. It is likely that it won’t have a user interface for login in to the network so an alternative needs to be thought out.
RPCs
Requirements
- Communication from device to server and back, server to help-opties (neighbour,caretaker, etc)
- analysing data
- Decision tree based on data-analyse (including interaction with user)
Preferences
Constraints
Budget
Time
space (memory)
datatype(n): audio (.mp4), …
small device: (arduino etc.)
Device: arduino, raspberry pi
- use arduino web server
Feedback & user interaction
Final Concept
Model
Results and analysis
Detailing
General design
Electric circuit
Wireless transmission system
Specifications
= Files
= Planning
= Reflection