title: Integration of multisensor hybrid reasoners to support personal autonomy in the smart home.
abstract: The deployment of the Ambient Intelligence (AmI) paradigm requires designing and integrating user-centered smart environments to assist people in their daily life activities. This research paper details an integration and validation of multiple heterogeneous sensors with hybrid reasoners that support decision making in order to monitor personal and environmental data at a smart home in a private way. The results innovate on knowledge-based platforms, distributed sensors, connected objects, accessibility and authentication methods to promote independent living for elderly people. TALISMAN+, the AmI framework deployed, integrates four subsystems in the smart home: (i) a mobile biomedical telemonitoring platform to provide elderly patients with continuous disease management; (ii) an integration middleware that allows context capture from heterogeneous sensors to program environment's reaction; (iii) a vision system for intelligent monitoring of daily activities in the home; and (iv) an ontologies-based integrated reasoning platform to trigger local actions and manage private information in the smart home. The framework was integrated in two real running environments, the UPM Accessible Digital Home and MetalTIC house, and successfully validated by five experts in home care, elderly people and personal autonomy.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Ingeniería y Arquitecturas Telemáticas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Carretera de Valencia km. 7, Madrid 28031, Spain. mavalero@diatel.upm.es.
authors.forename: Miguel Ángel
authors.initials: MÁ
authors.lastname: Valero
authors.affiliation: MAmI Research Lab, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Ciudad Real 13071, Spain. Jose.Bravo@uclm.es.
authors.forename: José
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bravo
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Alicante, Alicante 03690, Spain. juanma@dtic.ua.es.
authors.forename: Juan Manuel García
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Chamizo
authors.affiliation: Deusto Institute of Technology, DeustoTech, University of Deusto, Avda. Universidades 24, Bilbao 48007, Spain. dipina@deusto.es.
authors.forename: Diego
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: López-de-Ipiña
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D012656:Self-Help Devices; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D014159:Transducers