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HardwareX ; 15: e00461, 2023 Sep.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37649585

RESUMEN

Non-intrusive load monitoring of domestic appliances has received steady interest in the last twenty years, first because of interest from energy companies interested in usage statistics for power balancing and, more recently, in order to assist users in tuning their habits for reduced power consumption. This has increased the need for accurate and economic methods of power measurement that can be efficiently implemented on cheap and easy-to-install platforms. To this end, we present a cheap and efficient device based on Arduino to monitor the usage of domestic appliances in real-time: Enerduino-pro. The design uses low-cost easy-to-assemble open-source electronic components and consists of four main parts: an Arduino UNO microcontroller, one photoresistor to measure instantaneous power absorption plus one optional additional one to measure reactive power, a WiFi shield, and an LED (for debugging purposes only). We describe the device, complete with open software and hardware specifications, and different use cases with proof-of-concept solutions.

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Sensors (Basel) ; 20(20)2020 Oct 20.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33092181

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The last 10 years have seen enormous technical progress in the field of indoor positioning and indoor navigation; yet, in contrast with outdoor well-established GNSS solutions, no technology exists that is cheap and accurate enough for the general market. The potential applications of indoor localization are all-encompassing, from home to wide public areas, from IoT and personal devices to surveillance and crowd behavior applications, and from casual use to mission-critical systems. This special issue is focused on the recent developments within the sensors and sensing technologies for indoor positioning and indoor navigation networks domain. The papers included in this special issue provide useful insights to the implementation, modelling, and integration of novel technologies and applications, including location-based services, indoor maps and 3D building models, human motion monitoring, robotics and UAV, self-contained sensors, wearable and multi-sensor systems, privacy and security for indoor localization systems.

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Front Digit Health ; 2: 545949, 2020.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34713033

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In the context of the fourth revolution in healthcare technologies, leveraging monitoring and personalization across different domains becomes a key factor for providing useful services to maintain and promote well-being. This is even more crucial for older people, with aging being a complex multi-dimensional and multi-factorial process which can lead to frailty. The NESTORE project was recently funded by the EU Commission with the aim of supporting healthy older people to sustain their well-being and capacity to live independently. It is based on a multi-dimensional model of the healthy aging process that covers physical activity, nutrition, cognition, and social activity. NESTORE is based on the paradigm of the human-in-the-loop cyber-physical system that, exploiting the availability of Internet of Things technologies combined with analytics in the cloud, provides a virtual coaching system to support healthy aging. This work describes the design of the NESTORE methodology and its IoT architecture. We first model the end-user under several domains, then we present the NESTORE system that, analyzing relevant key-markers, provides coaching activities and personalized feedback to the user. Finally, we describe the validation strategy to assess the effectiveness of NESTORE as a coaching platform for healthy aging.

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Sensors (Basel) ; 18(12)2018 Dec 17.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30562934

RESUMEN

Indoor localization has become a mature research area, but further scientific developments are limited due to the lack of open datasets and corresponding frameworks suitable to compare and evaluate specialized localization solutions. Although several competitions provide datasets and environments for comparing different solutions, they hardly consider novel technologies such as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), which is gaining more and more importance in indoor localization due to its wide availability in personal and environmental devices and to its low costs and flexibility. This paper contributes to cover this gap by: (i) presenting a new indoor BLE dataset; (ii) reviewing several, meaningful use cases in different application scenarios; and (iii) discussing alternative uses of the dataset in the evaluation of different positioning and navigation applications, namely localization, tracking, occupancy and social interaction.


Asunto(s)
Bases de Datos como Asunto , Relaciones Interpersonales , Tecnología Inalámbrica , Humanos , Procesamiento de Señales Asistido por Computador , Teléfono Inteligente
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Sensors (Basel) ; 14(3): 3833-60, 2014 Feb 25.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24573309

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This paper presents the sensor network infrastructure for a home care system that allows long-term monitoring of physiological data and everyday activities. The aim of the proposed system is to allow the elderly to live longer in their home without compromising safety and ensuring the detection of health problems. The system offers the possibility of a virtual visit via a teleoperated robot. During the visit, physiological data and activities occurring during a period of time can be discussed. These data are collected from physiological sensors (e.g., temperature, blood pressure, glucose) and environmental sensors (e.g., motion, bed/chair occupancy, electrical usage). The system can also give alarms if sudden problems occur, like a fall, and warnings based on more long-term trends, such as the deterioration of health being detected. It has been implemented and tested in a test environment and has been deployed in six real homes for a year-long evaluation. The key contribution of the paper is the presentation of an implemented system for ambient assisted living (AAL) tested in a real environment, combining the acquisition of sensor data, a flexible and adaptable middleware compliant with the OSGistandard and a context recognition application. The system has been developed in a European project called GiraffPlus.


Asunto(s)
Servicios de Atención de Salud a Domicilio , Monitoreo Ambulatorio/instrumentación , Monitoreo Fisiológico/instrumentación , Telemetría/instrumentación , Humanos , Robótica , Programas Informáticos
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Clin Chim Acta ; 404(1): 12-5, 2009 Jun.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19298801

RESUMEN

Several countries are conducting dedicated initiatives at the national level aimed at decreasing the risk of harm associated with healthcare. Such activities are closely related to the healthcare system operating in the country and the role of the government within the system. In Italy, as part of the national model for quality and clinical governance policy, the Ministry of Health has conducted, in agreement with the Regions, many activities related to patient safety and risk management. Over the last 5 years, significant improvements on patient safety have been made in Italy with the creation of the national sentinel event reporting system, the implementation of nine recommendations and solutions, the development of training, education and patient safety tools, the fostering of stakeholders' involvement and the study of legal and insurance issues. The agreement signed in 2008 between the Central Government and the Regions is an important step towards the governance of patient safety at the national level as well as for the clinical management at the hospital level, and it will underpin the implementation of future actions in Italy. In addition, the Ministry of Health has elaborated a national program that will be developed over the next 2 years. Italian initiatives are now in progress and further efforts will be aimed at ensuring a flow of cyclical processes, so as to ensure continuity of action and promote a renewed interest in patient safety. This will entail not only a simple series of steps, but also the involvement of the complex array of stakeholders, in order to implement a cultural change in patient safety.


Asunto(s)
Defensa del Paciente , Garantía de la Calidad de Atención de Salud , Gestión de Riesgos , Administración de la Seguridad , Humanos , Italia , Garantía de la Calidad de Atención de Salud/normas , Gestión de Riesgos/normas , Administración de la Seguridad/normas
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