Toward a holistic elderly-centred behaviour monitoring solution: Achievements and Opportunities
Abdallah Naser, Ahmad Lotfi, Amir Pourabdollah, Jordan J. Bird · 2023
Despite extensive research on human-centric domestic behaviour monitoring for various essential applications, there are still significant challenges to deploying such systems on a larger scale. One of the main obstacles is adjusting the gap between privacy, performance, and the cost of assistive technologies to support older adults living independently in their homes. For instance, while traditional vision-based sensing approaches offer high performance, they compromise human privacy in domestic environments. On the other hand, ambient sensing approaches, such as the use of Passive Infra-Red (PIR) sensors, maintain human privacy but are hindered significantly in real-world scenarios, such as multi-occupancy environments. Inspired by our previous research work, this paper proposes a holistic system approach of several functional phases that can be used together to monitor and facilitate the independence of older adults using the Thermal Sensor Array.