IC-SAFE:Intelligent Connected Sensing Approaches for the Elderly

Senior citizens, young children, and people with age-related diseases, often find it hard to express themselves. They are not fully aware of their need for help, or how to ask for assistance. This lack of awareness decreases the quality of life, and even endangers those individuals.IC-SAFE (Intelligent Connected Sensing Approaches for the Elderly) tracks the safety of the elderly by using various connected smart wearable sensors. IC-SAFE collects motion data, including walking gaits, arm and leg tremors, and long lounging positions, from many lightweight body sensors to identify the safety status (both physical and emotional) of dementia patients. Feasibility tests have been performed using IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) sensors in various positions and data from these experiments has been gathered. We have proposed efficient real-time algorithms using analytical learning methods and identified several safety target scenarios by analyzing the corresponding gait data.