Verity: An ambient assisted living platform

Winkley, J.; Jiang, P.; Jiang, W.

Abstract

A new and innovative system intended for the monitoring of the elderly and those requiring passive care is developed, with a wrist-wearable wireless sensor node and a mobile platform to form a remotely accessible body area network. The system utilises a state-of-the art SoC (System on Chip), using an ultra-low power sensor interface and RF communication. Ambient/skin temperatures, accelerations and heart rate of the wearer are measured for real-time monitoring. Due to the high dimension and nonlinearity of the collected sensor data, a classifier with a dimension reduction technique is proposed for robust behaviour identification of a wearer. Experiments verify that the proposed classifier outperforms the conventional classifiers in its one-pass training and with higher distinguishing capability. The device functions unobtrusively, whilst giving the user peace of mind in the knowledge that their safety is being monitored. © 2012 IEEE.

Citation

Winkley, J., Jiang, P., & Jiang, W. (2012). Verity: An ambient assisted living platform. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 58(2), 364-373. https://doi.org/10.1109/tce.2012.6227435

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Jul 5, 2012
• Publication Date: Jul 17, 2012
• Deposit Date: Nov 13, 2014
• Journal: Ieee Transactions On Consumer Electronics
• Print ISSN: 0098-3063
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 58
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 364-373
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/tce.2012.6227435
• Keywords: Ambient Assisted Living; State Detection; Behaviour Monitoring; Passive Care; Symbiotic Technology
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/466929
• Publisher URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6227435/
• Contract Date: Nov 23, 2017