HDOMO: Smart Sensor Integration for an Active and Independent Longevity of the Elderly by Emanuele Frontoni, Rama Pollini, Paola Russo, Primo Zingaretti, Graziano Cerri

“…The aim of this paper is to present the main results of HDOMO, an Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) project that involved 16 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and 2 research institutes. …”
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IoT Wearable Sensors and Devices in Elderly Care: A Literature Review by Thanos G. Stavropoulos, Asterios Papastergiou, Lampros Mpaltadoros, Spiros Nikolopoulos, Ioannis Kompatsiaris

“…Interconnected sensing technology, such as IoT wearables and devices, present a promising solution for objective, reliable, and remote monitoring, assessment, and support through ambient assisted living. This paper presents a review of such solutions including both earlier review studies and individual case studies, rapidly evolving in the last decade. …”
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Treatment Adherence in Chronic Conditions during Ageing: Uses, Functionalities, and Cultural Adaptation of the Assistant on Care and Health Offline (ACHO) in Rural Areas by David Conde-Caballero, Borja Rivero-Jiménez, Carmen Cipriano-Crespo, Manuel Jesus-Azabal, Jose Garcia-Alonso, Lorenzo Mariano-Juárez

“…Its development consisted of two stages: a first stage of problem diagnosis, in which the classic tools of ethnographic fieldwork were used, and a second stage of design implementing methodologies developed by Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) programmes. The main design characteristic of this new digital care system is that it is adapted to the needs of its end-users. …”
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A DCNN-LSTM based human activity recognition by mobile and wearable sensor networks by Shaik Jameer, Hussain Syed

“…Systems for recognizing human activities are being developed as part of a larger framework that will allow for continuous monitoring of human behavior in intelligent home environments for elderly care, ambient assisted living, rehabilitation, sports injury detection, surveillance, and entertainment. …”
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Similarities and Differences between EU Platforms in the AHA and AAL Domains from a Software Viewpoint by Matjaž Gams, Žiga Kolar, Zdenko Vuk, Christina Samuelsson, Bernhard Jäger, Erik Dovgan

“…The EU PlatformUptake project’s main goal is to investigate the usage of EU open and partly-open platforms in active and healthy aging (AHA) and ambient-assisted living (AAL) domains, from a software viewpoint. …”
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Towards a Simulation Framework for Smart Indoor Spaces by Shadan Golestan, Ioanis Nikolaidis, Eleni Stroulia

“…We have evaluated our simulator for smart indoor spaces, <inline-formula><math display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>S</mi><mi>I</mi><msub><mi>M</mi><mrow><mi>s</mi><mi>i</mi><mi>s</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> toolkit, in the context of our Smart-Condo ambient-assisted living platform, supporting the observation and analysis of activities of daily living (ADLs). …”
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A multi-channel hybrid deep learning framework for multi-sensor fusion enabled human activity recognition by Lei Zhang, Jingwei Yu, Zhenyu Gao, Qin Ni

“…Sensor data based human activity recognition (HAR) as an effective means of SCH is promising for healthcare monitoring and ambient assisted living. This paper focuses on multi-position sensor data fusion enabled HAR, and proposes a multi-channel deep learning framework. …”
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Contactless Interactive Fall Detection and Sleep Quality Estimation for Supporting Elderly with Incipient Dementia by Siedel Roman, Scheck Tobias, Perez Grassi Ana C., Seuffert Julian B., Apitzsch André, Yu Jingrui, Nestler Norbert, Heinz Danny, Lehmann Lars, Goy Anne, Hirtz Gangolf

“…The field of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) tackles this problem by facilitating technical system-aided everyday life. …”
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A Proof-of-Concept IoT System for Remote Healthcare Based on Interoperability Standards by Lenin-Guillermo Lemus-Zúñiga, Juan M. Félix, Alvaro Fides-Valero, José-Vte. Benlloch-Dualde, Antonio Martinez-Millana

“…The proposed system involves Internet of Things technologies and interoperablility standards for health information exchange such as the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources and a reference framework architecture for Ambient Assisted Living UniversAAL.…”
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A Survey on Ambient Sensor-Based Abnormal Behaviour Detection for Elderly People in Healthcare by Yan Wang, Xin Wang, Damla Arifoglu, Chenggang Lu, Abdelhamid Bouchachia, Yingrui Geng, Ge Zheng

“…With advances in machine learning and ambient sensors as well as the emergence of ambient assisted living (AAL), modeling humans’ abnormal behaviour patterns has become an important assistive technology for the rising elderly population in recent decades. …”
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A Context-Aware Indoor Air Quality System for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Prevention by Daniel H. De La Iglesia, Juan F. De Paz, Gabriel Villarrubia González, Alberto L. Barriuso, Javier Bajo

“…Context-aware monitoring systems designed for e-Health solutions and ambient assisted living (AAL) play an important role in today’s personalized health-care services. …”
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C2FHAR: Coarse-to-Fine Human Activity Recognition With Behavioral Context Modeling Using Smart Inertial Sensors by Muhammad Ehatisham-Ul-Haq, Muhammad Awais Azam, Yasar Amin, Usman Naeem

“…Smart sensing devices are furnished with an array of sensors, including locomotion sensors, which enable continuous and passive monitoring of human activities for the ambient assisted living. As a result, sensor-based human activity recognition has earned significant popularity in the past few years. …”
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Analysis of Signal Processing Methods to Reject the DC Offset Contribution of Static Reflectors in FMCW Radar-Based Vital Signs Monitoring by Marco Mercuri, Tom Torfs, Maxim Rykunov, Stefano Laureti, Marco Ricci, Felice Crupi

“…Frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radars are currently being investigated for remote vital signs monitoring (measure of respiration and heart rates) as an innovative wireless solution for healthcare and ambient assisted living. However, static reflectors (furniture, objects, stationary body parts, etc.) within the range or range angular bin where the subject is present contribute in the Doppler signal to a direct current (DC) offset. …”
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SMS: A Secure Healthcare Model for Smart Cities by Gautami Tripathi, Mohd Abdul Ahad, Sara Paiva

“…IoT has envisioned several areas of smart cities including the modern healthcare environment like real-time monitoring, patient information management, ambient-assisted living, ambient-intelligence, anomaly detection, and accelerated sensing. …”
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Overview of Policies, Guidelines, and Standards for Active Assisted Living Data Exchange: Thematic Analysis by Fadrique, Laura X, Rahman, Dia, Vaillancourt, Hélène, Boissonneault, Paul, Donovska, Tania, Morita, Plinio P

“…The term AAL can be referred to as active assisted living or ambient assisted living, with both sometimes used interchangeably. …”
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AAL and Internet of Medical Things for Monitoring Type-2 Diabetic Patients by Shakeel Ahmed, Parvathaneni Naga Srinivasu, Abdulaziz Alhumam, Mohammed Alarfaj

“…Due to an aging population, assisted-care options are required so that senior citizens may maintain their independence at home for a longer time and rely less on caretakers. Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) encourages the creation of solutions that can help to optimize the environment for senior citizens with assistance while greatly reducing their challenges. …”
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Smart Co-housing for People With Disabilities: A Preliminary Assessment of Caregivers’ Interaction With the DOMHO System by Davide Bacchin, Patrik Pluchino, Patrik Pluchino, Adriana Zoe Grippaldi, Daniela Mapelli, Daniela Mapelli, Anna Spagnolli, Anna Spagnolli, Andrea Zanella, Andrea Zanella, Luciano Gamberini, Luciano Gamberini

“…Besides, the project aims at exploiting the well know effects of co-housing on individuals’ health and well-being in combination with ambient assisted living technologies. The present study focused on the interaction of caregivers with the control application of an integrated smart system. …”
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Use of Local Intelligence to Reduce Energy Consumption of Wireless Sensor Nodes in Elderly Health Monitoring Systems by Thomas J. Lampoltshammer, Edison Pignaton de Freitas, Thomas Nowotny, Stefan Plank, João Paulo Carvalho Lustosa da Costa, Tony Larsson, Thomas Heistracher

“…Such conjuncture affects socio-economic structures and creates demands for resourceful solutions, such as Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), which is a possible methodology to foster health care for elderly people. …”
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Elderly assisted living system by Yeo, Kai Sen

“…The concept is to track the 2 dimensions (2D) movements of the elderly using Real-Time Locating System (RTLS) to enable Ambient Assisted Living. The user will carry a Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) transmit-only tag that uses Impulse Radio Ultra Wideband (IR-UWB) technology. …”
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M2M communication in virtual sensor network for SHAAL by Khalid, Zubair, Fisal, Norsheila, Ullah, Rahat, Safdar, Hashim, Maqbool, Wajahat, Zubair, S., Khan, A. S.

“…M2M is going to play a major role in the area of Smart Home and Ambient Assisted Living (SHAAL) providing assistance to the elderly people with smart sensors that monitor the home environment and provides aid health monitoring to human requiring medical assistance. …”
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