Researchers have been led, by the continuous growth of the average age of the world population, to investigate new methods and tools to allow elderly people to live safely and independently in their homes. The continuous development and evolution of Smart Homes, combined with the emergence of increasingly advanced technologies based on sciences like Pervasive System or Internet of Things (IoT), has enabled the creation of tools for the automatic management of appliances, lighting and security. BRIDGe is a project created to guarantee a strong connection between the elderly, who live alone in their own homes, and all the people who take care of their wellbeing (e.g., family members, carers or doctors). The objective of this thesis is to develop a new version of BRIDGe that realizes an intuitive management of sensors and smart appliances, maintaining intact the main characteristics of the project: the low cost, the possibility of customizing the service on user needs and the modularity of the system, which allows to expand it with new services. During the development of this project, the most important phases were the analysis of requirements and existing technologies, the development of a web API to receive data from the houses and of a database to store them, the implementation of an accessible web portal that allows the users to manage their homes and view data and the development of a course-grain localization service that allows authorized users to monitor the position of the elderly in his house in real time in order to be present in anomalous situations.
La continua crescita dell'età media globale ha portato i ricercatori ad investigare nuovi metodi e strumenti per permettere alle persone anziane di vivere in sicurezza ed in autonomia nelle proprie case. Il continuo sviluppo delle Smart Homes, unito allo sviluppo di tecnologie sempre più avanzate basate su scienze quali Pervasive System o Internet of Things (IoT), ha permesso la nascita di strumenti per la gestione automatica di elettrodomestici, illuminazione e sicurezza. BRIDGe è un progetto nato per garantire una forte connessione tra gli anziani che vivono da soli nelle proprie case e tutti coloro che si occupano del loro benessere (e.g. familiari, badanti o medici). L'obiettivo di questa tesi è quello di sviluppare una nuova versione di BRIDGe che renda intuitiva la gestione dei sensori e degli elettrodomestici intelligenti, ma che mantenga inalterati i punti centrali del progetto: il costo moderato, la modularità del sistema e la possibilità di personalizzazione del servizio in base alle esigenze degli utenti. Durante lo sviluppo di questo progetto, le fasi più importanti sono state l'analisi dei requisiti e lo studio delle tecnologie già esistenti, seguite dallo sviluppo di una infrastruttura web costituita da una web API per ricevere i dati dalle case e da un base di dati per memorizzarli, l'implementazione di un portale web accessibile che permetta agli utenti di gestire le proprie case e di visualizzare i dati raccolti; lo sviluppo di un servizio di localizzazione a grana grossa che permetta agli utenti autorizzati di monitorare in tempo reale la posizione dell'anziano nella sua casa in modo da intervenire in situazioni anomale.
Bridge 2.0 : a framework for elderly independence and ambient assisted living
STROPPOLO, AMEDEO
2017/2018
Abstract
Researchers have been led, by the continuous growth of the average age of the world population, to investigate new methods and tools to allow elderly people to live safely and independently in their homes. The continuous development and evolution of Smart Homes, combined with the emergence of increasingly advanced technologies based on sciences like Pervasive System or Internet of Things (IoT), has enabled the creation of tools for the automatic management of appliances, lighting and security. BRIDGe is a project created to guarantee a strong connection between the elderly, who live alone in their own homes, and all the people who take care of their wellbeing (e.g., family members, carers or doctors). The objective of this thesis is to develop a new version of BRIDGe that realizes an intuitive management of sensors and smart appliances, maintaining intact the main characteristics of the project: the low cost, the possibility of customizing the service on user needs and the modularity of the system, which allows to expand it with new services. During the development of this project, the most important phases were the analysis of requirements and existing technologies, the development of a web API to receive data from the houses and of a database to store them, the implementation of an accessible web portal that allows the users to manage their homes and view data and the development of a course-grain localization service that allows authorized users to monitor the position of the elderly in his house in real time in order to be present in anomalous situations.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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