TY - GEN
T1 - Daily life activity tracking application for smart homes using android smartphone
AU - Fahim, Muhammad
AU - Fatima, Iram
AU - Lee, Sungyoung
AU - Lee, Young Koo
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Smart home is regarded as an independent healthy living for elderly person. Advances in phone technology and new style of computing paradigm (i.e., cloud computing) permits real time acquisition, processing, and tracking of activities in smart home. In this paper, we develop android smartphone application to assists elderly people for independent living in their own homes. It reduces the health expenditures and burden of health care professionals in care facility units. We assume smart home as an intelligent agent to perceive the environment and process the sensory data on cloud. Smartphone application communicates with cloud through web services and assists the elderly person to complete their daily life activities. It facilitates the care giver assistant by tracking the elderly persons in their own homes and avoids certain accidents. Furthermore, it also helps the family members to track the activities, when they are outside from homes.
AB - Smart home is regarded as an independent healthy living for elderly person. Advances in phone technology and new style of computing paradigm (i.e., cloud computing) permits real time acquisition, processing, and tracking of activities in smart home. In this paper, we develop android smartphone application to assists elderly people for independent living in their own homes. It reduces the health expenditures and burden of health care professionals in care facility units. We assume smart home as an intelligent agent to perceive the environment and process the sensory data on cloud. Smartphone application communicates with cloud through web services and assists the elderly person to complete their daily life activities. It facilitates the care giver assistant by tracking the elderly persons in their own homes and avoids certain accidents. Furthermore, it also helps the family members to track the activities, when they are outside from homes.
KW - Activity Tracking
KW - Android Smartphone
KW - Daily Life Activities
KW - Smart H omes
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84860560394
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84860560394
SN - 9788955191639
T3 - International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology, ICACT
SP - 241
EP - 245
BT - 14th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology
T2 - 14th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology, ICACT 2012
Y2 - 19 February 2012 through 22 February 2012
ER -