Safe and INDependent LIving (SINDI)
The large increase in aging population has a strong negative effect on the cost and quality of healthcare.
The delivery of clinical care through assistive monitoring represents a cost-effective solution to this problem.
The NOMADIS research lab developed an Assisted Living system, called Safe and INDependent LIving (SINDI) focused on the intelligent use of technology to improve the quality of life of people who live mainly at home.
SINDI has three components:
- a wireless sensor network that continuously evaluate the state of the elderly,
- a set-top box that handles TV, communication with the outside world and an agenda including the intake of drugs, and
- a logic-based reasoning engine that supports effective conflict resolution and it is able not only to trace general habits of a patient (walking ability, quality of sleep, movements within the house) in an unobtrusive way, but also to understand dependencies between behaviors and patient’s well-being, based on a hierarchical model of health.
The sensor network of SINDI has a large number of sensors both in fixed locations and on the patient’s body.
The network is used both for data collection and for localization. Such a network requires a clever management of routing and power consumption. Moreover, the system is able to understand the evolution of patient’s health state and prevent situations that could be potentially critical, before the emergency arises.
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