Exploiting the Internet of Things with Artificial Intelligence in the context of Health Smart Homes: a physical and emotional approach

Author(s)

Leandro Yukio Mano Alves

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Carlos.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC/SB)
• Defense date: 2019-09-27

Examining board members

Jo Ueyama; Juliana Freitag Borin; Everton Ranielly de Sousa Cavalcante; Seiji Isotani

• Advisor: Jo Ueyama

Abstract

Due to the increase in the elderly population or with physical/mental limitations it is possible to observe the growth of studies in the field of Internet of Things with the objective of monitoring health and assisting in the management and improvement of the quality of life of this part of the population . In this sense, the Internet of Things approach applied in medical environments and smart homes aims to provide connectivity between the patient and the environment around them, providing mechanisms to aid in diagnosis and prevention of accidents and/or diseases. In this context the opportunity arises to explore computational systems to identify the physical and emotional state, in real time, of individuals with some limitation to monitor health; for example, identifying the behavior of the users routine and issuing alerts to family members and/or medical staff about some abnormal event or identifying evidence of emotional disturbances. Also, based on Artificial Intelligence, it is possible for computational systems to learn and adapt to the context they are in, for example learning and adapting the amount of exercises and/or emotional state of the user in certain situations, combining concepts both of Internet of Things and of Artificial Intelligence. Thus, this project aims to develop and evaluate a model that can: i) identify the physical and emotional state of the user; ii) provide a mechanism that can intelligently monitor the daily activities of the user and; iii) explore the data integration approach with the use of multiple IoT sensors for better interaction between computing devices in the Health Smart Homes environment. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 16/14267-7 - Exploiting the Internet of Things with Artificial Intelligence in the context of Health Smart Homes: a physical and emotional approach
• Grantee: Leandro Yukio Mano Alves
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate