Real-time Gait Speed Evaluation at Home
Kévin Chapron, Kévin Bouchard, Sébastien Gaboury · 2019
In the last decades, aging population has raised substantial awareness by the scientific communities. An important part of these populations experience cognitive decline, without any method to threat it. However, the gait speed has been revealed as a great predictor of Mild Cognitive Impairments, making its monitoring very interesting for early detection. Since it would require a lot of human resources to do it at this scale, an ambient sensor would be a perfect solution for this task. It would be necessary to be able to associate the gait speed evaluated with the user who walked at this speed. This paper deals with our new conceptualized prototype to monitor gait speed in a smart home and automatically associate it with the right person. The method induced promising results.