Mobility Scenarios

Scenarios which enhance the independent or interdependent outdoor mobility of the elderly to and/or from a specific place. Mobility services making use of wireless sensors for outdoor activity allow the elderly to feel safer and enable the interaction with the environment. Monitoring services to be developed include the early detection of limitations in mobility of the elderly. The system will be based on a common communication platform that concentrates various sensors that provides real time monitoring of geo-position (GPS) and physical conditions of the elderly. Scenarios include :
  • Pickup Service

The elderly requests to be picked up by a member of the Virtual Team. The location of the elderly and his teams’ members is determined by the GPS device. The member closest to the elderly is selected to transfer the elderly to his destination.

  

  • Detect physical limitations

Analysis and evaluation of data for the early detection of limitations in mobility and physical fitness of the elderly.  Data are read on a regular basis from the various sensors of the system such as the embedded accelerometer on the mobile device which provides measurements of speed.





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