Ambient Assisted Control using Smart

Luminaires

Iuliana Marin
Nicolae Goga University POLITEHNICA
Ionuț Drăghici of Bucharest
Ionel-Bujorel Păvăloiu
Melania Nițu
 Introduction
 The population aging, the need to reduce the
cost of elderly care, as well as to increase
security and energy efficiency have led to the
emergence of many home monitoring systems.
 Our project consists of a network of modular
built-in bulbs using Bluetooth technology and
Raspberry Pi.
 The bulb network has the role of providing
location-related information to the application
server.

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Indoor Positioning and Localization

 Indoor positioning is a field of research that

draws a lot of attention at present.
 This technology can be embedded in a wide
range of consumer electronics products.
 In the case of inland navigation, indoor
positioning technology can be used in portable
products to provide location identification and
guide users in museums or large-scale shops.
 Fast Global Positioning System (GPS)
positioning is hard to do because the GPS
signals are absorbed by the walls of large
buildings.
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 Localization Algorithms
 Triangulation is the general name of the
positioning technique that uses the geometric
properties of the triangles to estimate the
location and is composed of two branches:
lateral and angular.
 The lateration, also known as trilateration,
approximates the location of the monitored
object by measuring distances to several
reference points.
 The proximity method is based on a network
of reference points, each of which has a
known position.

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 General Description of the
System
 The indoor monitoring system proposed in this research
is based on a network of monitoring blubs where each of
them has Bluetooth for attaining a wide area of
coverage.

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 Hardware Components
 The monitoring bulb is composed of an Arduino Mini Pro
328 of 5V/16 MHz, a Bluetooth Mate Silver for Arduino, a
plexiglass tube, and a light-emitting diode (LED) band.

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 Localization (1)
 The signaling and reception module has been deployed in
Android to monitor the position of a person / device that
holds the phone in a room where there are three
monitoring light bulbs with an Arduino Mini Pro to which it
is attached the Bluetooth Mate Silver to make the
connection between the bulb and the phone.
 The distance between the mobile phone and the light bulb
is calculated based on the RSSI signal strength (Received
Signal Strength Indicator) and the Bluetooth connection.
 The distance (d) between the patient and the bulb, given
by the formulae:

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 Localization (2)
 The coordinates of the person based on the personal
mobile phone are found based on the distance that is
computed for each of the three bulbs.

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 Results
 For testing purposes it has been considered a classroom
where its dimensions are known. The red points
represent the position of the 3 monitoring light bulbs
which were used.
 The coordinates, as well as the MAC addresses of the
light bulbs are known. The blue point represents the
position of the person to be monitored. The coordinates
of the persons resulted after computing it using
trilateration

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 Conclusions
 Today's generation have the tendency to leave alone at
their home and due to the need to take care of our dear
ones while being at work or abroad becomes a daily task.
 Our monitoring light bulb allows someone's relatives or
caregivers to observe the desired person position, as
well as to provide intimacy and support for the monitored
person.
 Variations occurred for the RSSI reading, such that an
average value of the measurements was used to
estimate the distances and position. The RSSI
measurement included also the noise which had to be
eliminated.
 RSSI value changes due to the propagation on multiple
paths when the signal goes through walls or floors. The
signals are attenuated based on the type and thickness
of the building's materials.

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Questions and Answers

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