Publication: TV interaction as a non-invasive sensor for monitoring elderly well-being at home
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2021-10-102
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Abstract
The number of technical solutions to remotely monitoring elderly citizens and detecting
hazard situations has been increasing in the last few years. These solutions have dual purposes: to
provide a feeling of safety to the elderly and to inform their relatives about potential risky situations,
such as falls, forgotten medication, and other unexpected deviations from daily routine. Most of
these solutions are based on IoT (Internet of Things) and dedicated sensors that need to be installed
at the elderly’s houses, hampering mass adoption. This justifies the search for non-invasive technical
alternatives with smooth integration that relying only on existent devices, without the need for any
additional installations. Therefore, this paper presents the SecurHome TV ecosystem, a technical
solution based on the elderly’s interactions with their TV sets—one of the most used devices in their
daily lives—acting as a non-invasive sensor enabling one to detect potential hazardous situations
through an elaborated warning algorithm. Thus, this paper describes in detail the SecurHome TV
ecosystem, with special emphasis on the warning algorithm, and reports on its validation process.
We conclude that notwithstanding some constraints while setting the user’s pattern, either upon the
cold start of the application or after an innocuous change in the user’s TV routine, the algorithm
detects most hazardous situations contributing to monitor elderly well-being at home.
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Elderly, Hazard situations, Home, Monitoring, Non-invasive sensor, Tv, Well-being
Bibliographic citation
Abreu, J., Oliveira, R., Garcia-Crespo, A., & Rodriguez-Goncalves, R. (2021). TV Interaction as a Non-Invasive Sensor for Monitoring Elderly Well-Being at Home. Sensors, 21(20), 6897.