Safe-Home

SAFE-HOME is a multi-disciplinary project, which exploits the intersection of a number of disruptive technologies, namely sensor design, artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, and recent advances in wireless networking, with emphasis on the interoperability of fog-cloud. The project aims at designing a system for monitoring the activity and movement of elders within a confined space (Home), in order to understand their activity level, with ability to identify emergency situations for alerting specific personnel, based on emergency type (e.g. medical staff, ambulance, or emergency contact). SAFE-HOME will also consider users surrounding information (e.g.: neighbourhood and city information) in order to enrich solution results. It is important to note, here, that the system is required to be non-invasive and not dependent on the user; hence, for instance, wearables, although can be integrated, are not main components of the system, since they depend on the user always remembering to wear and charge them (at the right times).