A web of things approach for indoor position monitoring of elderly and impaired people

Autor: Francesco Antoniazzi, Giacomo Paolini, Luca Roffia, Diego Masotti, Alessandra Costanzo, Tullio Salmon Cinotti
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Proceedings of the XXth Conference of Open Innovations Association FRUCT, Vol 562, Iss 21, Pp 51-56 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2305-7254
2343-0737
DOI: 10.23919/FRUCT.2017.8250164
Popis: Helping, assisting and taking care of the elderly and of impaired people is one of the greatest challenges in our society. Within this paper, we propose a new approach for indoor position monitoring of people, aiming to identify in real time dangerous situations. In order to boost interoperability and continuous adaptation of the devices used, a Web Of Things based solution will be proposed and evaluated. Our contribution, in particular, consists of a portable and user friendly Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) reader exploiting monopulse radar and beam-steering capabilities. Such hardware, exploiting a set of software modules, will be located in an environment easily accessible and extensible to a growing number of devices. The application will be the result of the cooperation between software and hardware, eventually outlining a real and completely flexible Web Of Things environment.
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