Unobtrusive Monitoring of Physical Activity in AAL - A Simple Wearable Device Designed for Older Adults

Adelmo De Santis, Antonio Del Campo, Ennio Gambi, Laura Montanini, Giovanni Pelliccioni, Davide Perla, Susanna Spinsante

2015

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 information 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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De Santis A., Del Campo A., Gambi E., Montanini L., Pelliccioni G., Perla D. and Spinsante S. (2015). Unobtrusive Monitoring of Physical Activity in AAL - A Simple Wearable Device Designed for Older Adults . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AgeingWell, ISBN 978-989-758-102-1, pages 200-205. DOI: 10.5220/0005497102000205


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@conference{ict4ageingwell15,
author={Adelmo De Santis and Antonio Del Campo and Ennio Gambi and Laura Montanini and Giovanni Pelliccioni and Davide Perla and Susanna Spinsante},
title={Unobtrusive Monitoring of Physical Activity in AAL - A Simple Wearable Device Designed for Older Adults},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AgeingWell,},
year={2015},
pages={200-205},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005497102000205},
isbn={978-989-758-102-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AgeingWell,
TI - Unobtrusive Monitoring of Physical Activity in AAL - A Simple Wearable Device Designed for Older Adults
SN - 978-989-758-102-1
AU - De Santis A.
AU - Del Campo A.
AU - Gambi E.
AU - Montanini L.
AU - Pelliccioni G.
AU - Perla D.
AU - Spinsante S.
PY - 2015
SP - 200
EP - 205
DO - 10.5220/0005497102000205