A tool for sensor placement and system monitoring in assistive environments

  • Authors:
  • Alexandros Papangelis;Fillia Makedon

  • Affiliations:
  • NCSR Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications and UTA CSE HERACLEIA Lab;UTA CSE HERACLEIA Lab

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Assistive Environments is a rapidly growing research field where researchers try to introduce state of the art technology into everyday life aiming to improve its quality. Everyone can benefit from it but first and foremost people with special needs such as elderly, disabled or patients. The Major Research Instrument project aims to develop a state of the art web based application, named zScope, that will be able to monitor human behaviour. The proposed tool is part of zScope and is responsible for placing and monitoring the various sensors in the environment. It provides functionality for environment layout design and is able to recommend near optimal positions for each sensor, using the Extended Max Sum Decentralised Coordination [1] algorithm, monitor each sensor's health and respond to any failures that might occur.