Localization systems are the source of data that allows to evaluate elderly person's behaviour, to draw conclusions concerning his or her health status and wellbeing, and to …
This paper presents an innovative multi-resident activity detection sensor network that uses the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) signal emitted by tags worn by residents and passive …
The number of people living with dementia in the world is rising at an unprecedented rate, and no country will be spared. Furthermore, neither decisive treatment nor effective …
Localization systems are an important component of Active and Assisted Living (AAL) platforms supporting persons with cognitive impairments. The paper presents a positioning …
The paper describes an NLOS (Non-Line-of-Sight) mitigation method intended for use in a UWB positioning system. In the proposed method propagation conditions between the …
Falls in the home environment are a primary cause of injury in older adults. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, every year, one in four adults 65 years of …
In this paper, the issue of detecting a user's position in relation to the antenna geometry in ultra-wideband (UWB) off-body wireless body area network (WBAN) communication using …
One of the functionalities which are desired in Ambient and Assisted Living systems is accurate user localization at their living place. One of the best-suited solutions for this …
Researchers are paying increasing attention to the development of low-cost and microcontroller-based accelerometers, in order to make structural health monitoring feasible …