Social Distance Monitoring using AI techniques in AAL environments

The growing global epidemic of coronavirus, as well as the shortage in health care professionals, impose protection measures to be taken by citizens themselves. One of these measures is social distancing. In an autonomous and assisted living environment a set of technologies can offer protection to the tenants by monitoring the individuals’ distance between them. This paper proposes to leverage the social distancing application in Ambient assisted living environments, following the precautions proposed by the experts against Covid-19. The evaluation results were quite impressive and a high accuracy was achieved as the difference between application’s and real world measurements was up to 5%.