| dc.description.abstract | With the advance of information and communication technologies, people can access the Internet anytime and anywhere. When microelectronic devices and sensors are developed and used in daily life widely, this made the era of the Internet of Things as being applied in all fields in our living environments. Among a variety of new and emerging application domains, “smart home” is interesting and approaching to general users. A smart home system can provide users a comfort, convenient, and digital lifestyle, which can not only offer home automation and entertainment services but also home care services for the intention of assisting and serving the needs of the elderly or disabled persons even normal people.
The study in this thesis firstly conducts a systematic literature review on conceptual frameworks proposed to create smart home care environments based on modern Internet of Things and Web technologies, particularly for elderly in residential environments. Then, this thesis proposes a novel framework design aimed to do the data collection from various sensors and camera nodes. Data communications among these nodes are based on IP and Transmission Control Protocol. All data will be collected onto and processed on a backend data server. This data server will store data on database, and develop web-based smart home care applications. Our study designs a centralized control mechanism based on the Restful architecture and provides a features for users to do remote web access simply by their own PCs, laptops, or mobile devices to manage and monitor smart home care devices. Through this centralized control, users can interact with the web server to operate many services, such as watching real-time streams with multiple cameras, controlling lighting sensors, reading data from humidity sensors, as well as browsing and analyzing history data on the database.
This thesis further attempts to incorporate fall detection into a practical demonstration. The proof-of-concept scenario design, technical development and prototypical implementation thus come out a smart home care system which is capable of camera-based fall detection and alert messaging to users and the remote data center when falling events are signaling. This implementation contains an extensive feature in link with the LINE mobile instant messaging
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application. In addition, this implementation is able to call the ASUS Zenbo Robot to assist in smart home care together. Therefore, the efforts in this thesis accomplish a novel integrated smart home care framework which is able to perform web-based management and control for camerabased fall detection and urgent message reporting in residential environments. | en_US |