The South African township is characterised by low-cost houses as well as the so-called‘shack’that consists of corrugated iron, plastic and cardboard. In several research projects high levels of fear have been encountered among residents of these low-cost houses, in both rural and ...
The combination of low-cost devices and advanced information systems can reduce the cost of daily life monitoring while preventing unnecessary hospital admissions. Although high precision is the main target that has to be accomplished in the medical checks performed by e-health monitoring systems, low...
[18]. Activity recognition systems, which employ the fusion of different sensors, typically follow a hierarchical approach [13]. Figure 1 illustrates the activity recognition steps. These steps are discussed in details in the following sections. First, the sensors’ providers collect and track useful...
Despite the wealth of solutions proposed for this general problem, there are very few support systems that can be reproduced on a larger scale. In this study, we propose a method to monitor the activity of the elderly living alone and detect deviations from the previous activity patterns based...