City For All Ages: Elderly-friendly City Services for Active and Healthy Ageing

The proposed assistive Activities of Daily Living (ADL) monitoring system consists of ambient infrared sensors embedded seamlessly into the living environment, and a visualization app. Multimodality sensors with wireless data transmission capability will be installed at different locations (e.g. bedroom, kitchen, toilet, bathroom, living room, etc.) to monitor and detect the activities performed by individual elderly, such as cooking, sleeping, going to the bathroom, going out of the apartment or potential wandering, bathroom falls, etc. In addition, a micro-bend fiber optic pressure sensor mat will be placed unobtrusively below the bed mattress to measure the elderly's heart and respiratory rates during sleep. This mat helps provide information on the quality of sleep and sleep-wake rhythms of the elderly with sleep disorders. The collected data will then be transferred through a secured gateway with Raspberry Pi to a dedicated server for data processing and analysis.

Traditional elderly care without the use of IoT sensors.