"Remote monitoring for health, safety, quality of life and
assisted independence of older and fragile people"
(2012-2015)
The project aims at the continuous
monitoring and support of the activities and therapy of
elderly and fragile people at home after hospital discharge. The
physical activity and biomedical wearable sensors data will be
collected by smartphone and sent via Internet to a data centre
where sophisticated machine learning mechanisms will identify
critical
situations, and will analyze temporal trends of the health of the
patient. Data, alarms and trends will be made available to the
medical staff for monitoring and decision making.
The results of acquisitions and elaborations will be able to
classify
- motor activities (risers and seats from a chair / bed, room to
room trips, falls, etc.),
- trajectories of the paths in domestic journeys,
- remarkable audio events (crying, moaning, etc.).
The terminal will perform many functions including:
- collecting and storing data from wearable biosensors in
particular for body vital parameters (temperature, pulse,
pressure, body weight, body impedance, trans thoracic impedance,
performed physical activity, heart rate and O2 saturation,
etc.).
- interfacing both on the telephone network and on local network
and then on the Internet
- sending periodic reports to specified recipients (doctors,
hospitals, relatives)
- triggering alarms and automatic distress calls.
The project will consider as a case study precisely the assistance
of elderly people with Heart Failure assessing the impact of
an extra-hospital management, carried out by nursing staff,
supported by telemedicine tools based.