Analysis of Ultrasound Sensor Applicability in AAL Systems for Cooking Process Monitoring

The trend of population aging and increasing number of people with cognitive and other impairments caused more demands in Ambient Assisted Living solutions development. The kitchen space and cooking process are identified as a critical in this domain, from security and assistive aspects. In this paper, we present a short overview of technical solutions related to the cooker monitoring and corresponding sensors. In order to improve existing solutions, we invoke the ultrasound sensor utilization for cookware detection, liquid level measurement and detection of user activities regarding the cooking process. We have setup the testing prototype based on ultrasound sensor and acquired some experimental results, which will be presented.