Authors:
Adelmo De Santis
;
Antonio Del Campo
;
Ennio Gambi
;
Laura Montanini
;
Giovanni Pelliccioni
;
Davide Perla
and
Susanna Spinsante
Affiliation:
Universita’ Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Keyword(s):
Smart Insole, Wearable Sensor, Activity Monitoring, Ambient Assisted Living.
Abstract:
Many solutions and projects proposed within the Ambient Assisted Living research area, aim at monitoring
the degree of vitality of elderly users in their daily activities, and in their home environment, to possibly
avoid or strongly limit the need for clinical evaluations. In fact, the information on the subject’s vitality,
manifested through his/her activity profile, may be used to evaluate possible anomalous trends, related to cognitive
or physical decay. For such a kind of analysis to be realistically affordable, the monitoring device shall
be unobtrusive, and transparent to the user. With the aim of striving for the simplest and most reliable design
compatible with the aforementioned requirements, this paper presents a wearable device equipped with a sensing
insole hosting force sensors, and the related electronics for signal processing and data transmission. The
device locally classifies different dynamic states (sitting, walking, standing) and transmits the corresponding
inform
ation to a supervising system. Preliminary experimental results confirm the effectiveness of the
approach, in correctly detecting and classifying the user’s activities.
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