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Cyber-physical system for

assisted living at home


Nick Ipe Mathew
Overview

Introduction
Related Technologies & Applications
Intelligent, Monitoring CPS
Components
Key Properties
Conclusion
Introduction

Alternatives in light of increased demand for


healthcare
Keep people out of residential homes and hospitals
and in their own home
Detect signs of illness before it gets serious
Monitor health, issue alerts to user
Related Technologies & Applications

Sports-monitoring
Wearable health monitoring
At-home health monitoring
Intelligent, Monitoring CPS

Unified platform
Sense environmental and physiological signals
continuously
Manage, store and analyzes the sensed data
Present to user or forward to health-care professional
Intelligent, Monitoring CPS (contd.)
Components

Privacy
Sensors
Gateway
Sensor fusion & network
Key properties

Near-transparency
Reliability
Secure communication
Analysis
Conclusion

Potential to provide continuous physiological


monitoring
Elder citizens will be able to remain at home longer
References

 J. M. Eklund, T. R. Hansen, J. Sprinkle, S. S. Sastry.


“Information Technology for Assisted Living at Home: Building
a Wireless Infrastructure for Assisted Living”. 27th Annual
International Conference of the IEEE Engineering In Medicine
and Biology Society (EMBS), 3931-3934, September, 2005.
 A. Sixsmith and N. Johnson, “Smart sensor to detect the falls of
the elderly”, IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 42-
47, April - June 2004.
 Kirovski, D., Oliver, N., Sinclair, M., and Tan, D. 2007. Health-
OS:: a position paper. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM
SIGMOBILE International Workshop on Systems and
Networking Support For Healthcare and Assisted Living
Environments (San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 11 – 11, 2007).
HealthNet ‘07. ACM, New York, NY, 76-78.

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