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THE D.3.2.1 - AA@THE User needs, technical requirements and specifications
Pratali L., Campana M. G., Delmastro F., Di Martino F., Pescosolido L., Barsocchi P., Broccia G., Ciancia V., Gennaro C., Girolami M., Lagani G., La Rosa D., Latella D., Magrini M., Manca M., Massink M., Mattioli A., Moroni D., Palumbo F., Paradisi P., Paternò F., Santoro C., Sebastiani L., Vairo C.
Deliverable D3.2.1 del progetto PNRR Ecosistemi ed innovazione - THESource: ISTI Project Report, THE, D3.2, 2023
Pratali L., Campana M. G., Delmastro F., Di Martino F., Pescosolido L., Barsocchi P., Broccia G., Ciancia V., Gennaro C., Girolami M., Lagani G., La Rosa D., Latella D., Magrini M., Manca M., Massink M., Mattioli A., Moroni D., Palumbo F., Paradisi P., Paternò F., Santoro C., Sebastiani L., Vairo C.
Deliverable D3.2.1 del progetto PNRR Ecosistemi ed innovazione - THESource: ISTI Project Report, THE, D3.2, 2023
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2023
Conference article
Open Access
IoT smart shoe solution for neuromuscular disease monitoring
La Rosa D., Palumbo F., Ronca A., Sansone F., Tesconi M., Tonacci A., Conte R.
Recent advances in sensing, processing, and learning of physiological parameters, make the development of non-invasive health monitoring systems increasingly effective, especially in those situations that need particular attention to the usability of devices and software solutions due to the frailty of the target population. In this context, we developed a sensorized shoe that detects significant features in subjects' gait and monitors variations related to an intervention protocol in people affected by Neuromuscular Disorders (NMDs). This paper outlines the challenges in the field and summarizes the approach used to overcome the technological barriers related to connectivity, deployment, and usability that are typical in a medical setting. The proposed solution adopts the new paradigm offered by Web Bluetooth based on Bluetooth WebSocket. We show the architectural and deployment choices and how this solution can be easily adapted to different devices and scenarios.Source: PervasiveHealth 2022 - 16th EAI International Conference, pp. 104–115, Thessaloniki, Greece, 12-14/12/2022
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-34586-9_8
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La Rosa D., Palumbo F., Ronca A., Sansone F., Tesconi M., Tonacci A., Conte R.
Recent advances in sensing, processing, and learning of physiological parameters, make the development of non-invasive health monitoring systems increasingly effective, especially in those situations that need particular attention to the usability of devices and software solutions due to the frailty of the target population. In this context, we developed a sensorized shoe that detects significant features in subjects' gait and monitors variations related to an intervention protocol in people affected by Neuromuscular Disorders (NMDs). This paper outlines the challenges in the field and summarizes the approach used to overcome the technological barriers related to connectivity, deployment, and usability that are typical in a medical setting. The proposed solution adopts the new paradigm offered by Web Bluetooth based on Bluetooth WebSocket. We show the architectural and deployment choices and how this solution can be easily adapted to different devices and scenarios.Source: PervasiveHealth 2022 - 16th EAI International Conference, pp. 104–115, Thessaloniki, Greece, 12-14/12/2022
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-34586-9_8
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2023
Journal article
Open Access
Enerduino-pro: smart meter led probe using Arduino
Potortì F., La Rosa D., Palumbo F.
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.Source: HardwareX 15 (2023). doi:10.1016/j.ohx.2023.e00461
DOI: 10.1016/j.ohx.2023.e00461
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Potortì F., La Rosa D., Palumbo F.
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.Source: HardwareX 15 (2023). doi:10.1016/j.ohx.2023.e00461
DOI: 10.1016/j.ohx.2023.e00461
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2023
Journal article
Open Access
Connectivity standards alliance matter: state of the art and opportunities
Belli D., Barsocchi P., Palumbo F.
Matter is an open-source, royalty-free connectivity standard developed by the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA-IoT). It aims to unify smart home devices and increase their compatibility across various ecosystems. Backed by major tech companies like Apple, Google, Amazon, and the Zigbee Alliance, Matter simplifies the development of IoT devices by providing a unified approach to connectivity. It offers a secure, reliable, and seamless way for devices to communicate and interact, regardless of the manufacturer. This paper aims to present the current state of adoption of the Matter specification by devices available on the market, and the certification process by the available software. It describes the main characteristics of Matter in its Specification 1.0 state, reviewing the features and functionalities of the Matter protocol, as well as the opportunities for its use and the challenges for its large-scale adoption in Matter-compliant IoT devices. We discuss the impact of Matter on IoT technologies and ecosystems, providing guidance for manufacturers and consumers. We analyze the emerging research challenges in its adoption and propose our recommendations on how to improve and extend this protocol for better use in the future.Source: Internet of Things 25 (2023). doi:10.1016/j.iot.2023.101005
DOI: 10.1016/j.iot.2023.101005
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Belli D., Barsocchi P., Palumbo F.
Matter is an open-source, royalty-free connectivity standard developed by the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA-IoT). It aims to unify smart home devices and increase their compatibility across various ecosystems. Backed by major tech companies like Apple, Google, Amazon, and the Zigbee Alliance, Matter simplifies the development of IoT devices by providing a unified approach to connectivity. It offers a secure, reliable, and seamless way for devices to communicate and interact, regardless of the manufacturer. This paper aims to present the current state of adoption of the Matter specification by devices available on the market, and the certification process by the available software. It describes the main characteristics of Matter in its Specification 1.0 state, reviewing the features and functionalities of the Matter protocol, as well as the opportunities for its use and the challenges for its large-scale adoption in Matter-compliant IoT devices. We discuss the impact of Matter on IoT technologies and ecosystems, providing guidance for manufacturers and consumers. We analyze the emerging research challenges in its adoption and propose our recommendations on how to improve and extend this protocol for better use in the future.Source: Internet of Things 25 (2023). doi:10.1016/j.iot.2023.101005
DOI: 10.1016/j.iot.2023.101005
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2022
Conference article
Open Access
Trends in smartphone-based indoor localisation
Potortì F., Crivello A., Palumbo F., Girolami M., Barsocchi P.
Indoor localisation is a thriving field, whose progresses are mainly led by innovations in sensor technology, both hardware and software. With a focus on smartphone-based personal navigation, we examine the evolution of sensing technologies in eleven leading applications. In order to select applications we choose among independently-tested prototypes, as opposed to simulation or laboratory-only experiments. To this end, we look at the best performers in the smartphone-based Tracks of IPIN competitions. This selection is particularly severe and significant, as this competition Track is performed live, without an opportunity for competitors to instrument or prepare the site or to know the path in advance and with only two attempts allowed, of which the best result is taken. An independent actor holds in hand the smartphone running the competing system, and results are downloaded from the phone immediately after the competition path is completed, without any post-processing. We show how sensing technologies have evolved from 2014 to 2019 and show a trend towards improving accuracy performance. Last, we provide insight in the role that sensors and algorithms play in the evolution of smartphone-based indoor localisation solutions.Source: IPIN 2021 - International conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, Lloret de Mar, 29/11/2021-02/12/2021
DOI: 10.1109/ipin51156.2021.9662530
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Potortì F., Crivello A., Palumbo F., Girolami M., Barsocchi P.
Indoor localisation is a thriving field, whose progresses are mainly led by innovations in sensor technology, both hardware and software. With a focus on smartphone-based personal navigation, we examine the evolution of sensing technologies in eleven leading applications. In order to select applications we choose among independently-tested prototypes, as opposed to simulation or laboratory-only experiments. To this end, we look at the best performers in the smartphone-based Tracks of IPIN competitions. This selection is particularly severe and significant, as this competition Track is performed live, without an opportunity for competitors to instrument or prepare the site or to know the path in advance and with only two attempts allowed, of which the best result is taken. An independent actor holds in hand the smartphone running the competing system, and results are downloaded from the phone immediately after the competition path is completed, without any post-processing. We show how sensing technologies have evolved from 2014 to 2019 and show a trend towards improving accuracy performance. Last, we provide insight in the role that sensors and algorithms play in the evolution of smartphone-based indoor localisation solutions.Source: IPIN 2021 - International conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, Lloret de Mar, 29/11/2021-02/12/2021
DOI: 10.1109/ipin51156.2021.9662530
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2022
Journal article
Open Access
The NESTORE e-coach: designing a multi-domain pathway to well-being in older age
Angelini L., El Kamali M., Mugellini E., Abou Khaled O., Roecke C., Porcelli S., Mastropietro A., Rizzo G., Boque N., Del Bas J. M., Palumbo F., Girolami M., Crivello A., Ziylan C., Subias-Beltran P., Orte S., Standoli C. E., Fernandez Maldonado L., Caon M., Sykora M., Elayan S., Guye S., Andreoni G.
This article describes the coaching strategies of the NESTORE e-coach, a virtual coach for promoting healthier lifestyles in older age. The novelty of the NESTORE project is the definition of a multi-domain personalized pathway where the e-coach accompanies the user throughout different structured and non-structured coaching activities and recommendations. The article also presents the design process of the coaching strategies, carried out including older adults from four European countries and experts from the different health domains, and the results of the tests carried out with 60 older adults in Italy, Spain and The Netherlands.Source: Technologies (Basel) 10 (2022). doi:10.3390/technologies10020050
DOI: 10.3390/technologies10020050
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Angelini L., El Kamali M., Mugellini E., Abou Khaled O., Roecke C., Porcelli S., Mastropietro A., Rizzo G., Boque N., Del Bas J. M., Palumbo F., Girolami M., Crivello A., Ziylan C., Subias-Beltran P., Orte S., Standoli C. E., Fernandez Maldonado L., Caon M., Sykora M., Elayan S., Guye S., Andreoni G.
This article describes the coaching strategies of the NESTORE e-coach, a virtual coach for promoting healthier lifestyles in older age. The novelty of the NESTORE project is the definition of a multi-domain personalized pathway where the e-coach accompanies the user throughout different structured and non-structured coaching activities and recommendations. The article also presents the design process of the coaching strategies, carried out including older adults from four European countries and experts from the different health domains, and the results of the tests carried out with 60 older adults in Italy, Spain and The Netherlands.Source: Technologies (Basel) 10 (2022). doi:10.3390/technologies10020050
DOI: 10.3390/technologies10020050
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2022
Conference article
Open Access
A sensing platform to monitor sleep efficiency
Crivello A., La Rosa D., Wilhelm E., Palumbo F.
Sleep plays a fundamental role in the human life. Sleep research is mainly focused on the understanding of the sleep patterns, stages and duration. An accurate sleep monitoring can detect early signs of sleep deprivation and insomnia consequentially implementing mechanisms for preventing and overcoming these problems. Recently, sleep monitoring has been achieved using wearable technologies, able to analyse also the body movements, but old people can encounter some difficulties in using and maintaining these devices. In this paper, we propose an unobtrusive sensing platform able to analyze body movements, infer sleep duration and awakenings occurred along the night, and evaluating the sleep efficiency index. To prove the feasibility of the suggested method we did a pilot trial in which several healthy users have been involved. The sensors were installed within the bed and, on each day, each user was administered with the Groningen Sleep Quality Scale questionnaire to evaluate the user's perceived sleep quality. Finally, we show potential correlation between a perceived evaluation with an objective index as the sleep efficiency.Source: ForItAAL 2020 - Italian Forum of Ambient Assisted Living, pp. 335–345, 01/12/2020
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-08838-4_23
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Crivello A., La Rosa D., Wilhelm E., Palumbo F.
Sleep plays a fundamental role in the human life. Sleep research is mainly focused on the understanding of the sleep patterns, stages and duration. An accurate sleep monitoring can detect early signs of sleep deprivation and insomnia consequentially implementing mechanisms for preventing and overcoming these problems. Recently, sleep monitoring has been achieved using wearable technologies, able to analyse also the body movements, but old people can encounter some difficulties in using and maintaining these devices. In this paper, we propose an unobtrusive sensing platform able to analyze body movements, infer sleep duration and awakenings occurred along the night, and evaluating the sleep efficiency index. To prove the feasibility of the suggested method we did a pilot trial in which several healthy users have been involved. The sensors were installed within the bed and, on each day, each user was administered with the Groningen Sleep Quality Scale questionnaire to evaluate the user's perceived sleep quality. Finally, we show potential correlation between a perceived evaluation with an objective index as the sleep efficiency.Source: ForItAAL 2020 - Italian Forum of Ambient Assisted Living, pp. 335–345, 01/12/2020
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-08838-4_23
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2022
Conference article
Open Access
ChAALenge: an ambient assisted living project to promote an active and health ageing
Barsocchi P., Belli D., Gabrielli E., La Rosa D., Miori V., Palumbo F., Russo D., Tolomei G.
The rapid growth of older population in the next years will lead to the rapid growth in the demand of health care, resulting in an increasing difficulty in managing hospitalizations and in a prohibitive grow of costs for medical care. In this context, chronic heart failure emerges as one of the most difficult problems to be treated, especially in advanced age, and a major cause of hospitalization and death. The Project ChAALenge aims at facing the problem by proposing a proactive approach based on pervasive monitoring and artificial intelligence. The goal is to promptly stepping, before the pathology onset, with effective suggestions ranging from the request of medical examination to the adjustment of lifestyle. The current paper presents the mid-term results of the ongoing project, introducing the sensors, the middleware and the candidate artificial intelligence techniques constituting the predictive system of the older adults' health status.Source: AIxIA 2022 - 21st International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, pp. 42–58, Udine, Italy, 28/11/2022, 02/12/2022
Barsocchi P., Belli D., Gabrielli E., La Rosa D., Miori V., Palumbo F., Russo D., Tolomei G.
The rapid growth of older population in the next years will lead to the rapid growth in the demand of health care, resulting in an increasing difficulty in managing hospitalizations and in a prohibitive grow of costs for medical care. In this context, chronic heart failure emerges as one of the most difficult problems to be treated, especially in advanced age, and a major cause of hospitalization and death. The Project ChAALenge aims at facing the problem by proposing a proactive approach based on pervasive monitoring and artificial intelligence. The goal is to promptly stepping, before the pathology onset, with effective suggestions ranging from the request of medical examination to the adjustment of lifestyle. The current paper presents the mid-term results of the ongoing project, introducing the sensors, the middleware and the candidate artificial intelligence techniques constituting the predictive system of the older adults' health status.Source: AIxIA 2022 - 21st International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, pp. 42–58, Udine, Italy, 28/11/2022, 02/12/2022
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2022
Journal article
Open Access
Nutritional and physical improvements in older adults through the DOREMI remote coaching approach: a real-world study
Vozzi F., Palumbo F., Ferro E., Kreiner K., Giugni F., Dutton R., Hall S., Musian D., Parolini M., Riso P., Parodi O.
Background: Malnutrition (excess or defect) and sedentariness act as an accelerator in the older people frailty process. A systemic solution has been developed to engage older people in a healthier lifestyle using serious games and food monitoring. The study aimed to evaluate protocol influence on variables related to unhealthy behaviors improving dietary habits through a remote nutritional coaching approach and stimulating the population to increase physical activity through Exergames. Methods: Thirty-two subjects (25 Treatments and 7 Controls, aging 65-80 years), of which 15 (11 Treatments and 4 Controls) living in the UK (ACCORD and ExtraCare Villages placed in Shenley Wood (Milton Keynes), St. Crispin (Northampton), and Showell Court (Wolverhampton)) and 17 (14 Treatments and 3 Controls) in Italy (Genoa, Liguria), were recruited and characterized in terms of nutritional status, physical, somatometric, hemodynamic and biochemical measurements, and body composition. Participants were stimulated to adopt the Mediterranean dietary pattern, by a food diary diet-app, and perform regular physical activity, by the Exergame app, for three months. At the end of the trial, users underwent the same test battery. Data were tested for normality of distribution by the Shapiro-Wilk test. Comparisons between groups were performed at baseline by unpaired Student's t-test for continuous variables, chi-square test, or Fisher's exact test for categorical variables. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) for repeated measures was used to analyze the significance of changes over time between groups. Results: At the end of the trial, significant reductions of systolic (15 mmHg, P = 0.001), diastolic (5 mmHg, P = 0.025), mean (10 mmHg, P = 0.001) blood pressure, and rate-pressure product (RPP) (1,105 mmHg*bpm, P = 0.017) values were observed in DOREMI users. A trend of improvement of physical performance by the short physical performance battery (SPPB) was observed for balance and walk subtests. A significant decrease (0.91 kg, P = 0.043) in Body Mass Index (BMI) was observed in overweight subjects (BMI >25 kg/m) after DOREMI intervention in the entire population. The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) score (1, P = 0.004) significantly increased after intervention, while waist measure (3 cm, P <0.001) significantly decreased in the DOREMI users. A reduction in glycated hemoglobin (Hb) was registered (0.20%, P = 0.018) in the DOREMI UK users. Conclusions: Improvement of healthy behavior by technological tools, providing feedback between user and remote coach and increasing user's motivation, appears potentially effective. This information and communication technologies (ICT) approach offers an innovative solution to stimulate healthy eating and lifestyle behaviors, supporting clinicians in patient management.Source: Intelligent medicine (Online) 2 (2022): 181–192. doi:10.1016/j.imed.2022.04.001
DOI: 10.1016/j.imed.2022.04.001
Project(s): DOREMI
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Vozzi F., Palumbo F., Ferro E., Kreiner K., Giugni F., Dutton R., Hall S., Musian D., Parolini M., Riso P., Parodi O.
Background: Malnutrition (excess or defect) and sedentariness act as an accelerator in the older people frailty process. A systemic solution has been developed to engage older people in a healthier lifestyle using serious games and food monitoring. The study aimed to evaluate protocol influence on variables related to unhealthy behaviors improving dietary habits through a remote nutritional coaching approach and stimulating the population to increase physical activity through Exergames. Methods: Thirty-two subjects (25 Treatments and 7 Controls, aging 65-80 years), of which 15 (11 Treatments and 4 Controls) living in the UK (ACCORD and ExtraCare Villages placed in Shenley Wood (Milton Keynes), St. Crispin (Northampton), and Showell Court (Wolverhampton)) and 17 (14 Treatments and 3 Controls) in Italy (Genoa, Liguria), were recruited and characterized in terms of nutritional status, physical, somatometric, hemodynamic and biochemical measurements, and body composition. Participants were stimulated to adopt the Mediterranean dietary pattern, by a food diary diet-app, and perform regular physical activity, by the Exergame app, for three months. At the end of the trial, users underwent the same test battery. Data were tested for normality of distribution by the Shapiro-Wilk test. Comparisons between groups were performed at baseline by unpaired Student's t-test for continuous variables, chi-square test, or Fisher's exact test for categorical variables. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) for repeated measures was used to analyze the significance of changes over time between groups. Results: At the end of the trial, significant reductions of systolic (15 mmHg, P = 0.001), diastolic (5 mmHg, P = 0.025), mean (10 mmHg, P = 0.001) blood pressure, and rate-pressure product (RPP) (1,105 mmHg*bpm, P = 0.017) values were observed in DOREMI users. A trend of improvement of physical performance by the short physical performance battery (SPPB) was observed for balance and walk subtests. A significant decrease (0.91 kg, P = 0.043) in Body Mass Index (BMI) was observed in overweight subjects (BMI >25 kg/m) after DOREMI intervention in the entire population. The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) score (1, P = 0.004) significantly increased after intervention, while waist measure (3 cm, P <0.001) significantly decreased in the DOREMI users. A reduction in glycated hemoglobin (Hb) was registered (0.20%, P = 0.018) in the DOREMI UK users. Conclusions: Improvement of healthy behavior by technological tools, providing feedback between user and remote coach and increasing user's motivation, appears potentially effective. This information and communication technologies (ICT) approach offers an innovative solution to stimulate healthy eating and lifestyle behaviors, supporting clinicians in patient management.Source: Intelligent medicine (Online) 2 (2022): 181–192. doi:10.1016/j.imed.2022.04.001
DOI: 10.1016/j.imed.2022.04.001
Project(s): DOREMI
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2022
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ChAALenge - D6.1: Analisi delle peculiarità di salute della popolazione anziana e definizione requisiti tecnici
Miori V., Belli D., Bacco M F., Baronti P., Barsocchi P., Crivello A., Furfari F., Girolami M., La Rosa D., Mavilia F., Palumbo F., Pillitteri L., Potortì F., Russo D.
In questo documento viene posta particolare attenzione alla malattia dello scompenso cardiaco che è una delle maggiori cause di mortalità e disabilità nella popolazione anziana oltre ad essere la prima causa di ricovero. Sono analizzate le soluzioni di monitoraggio domestico attualmente disponibili e i requisiti tecnici da soddisfare per poter raccogliere e analizzare i dati fisiologici nell'ambiente di vita e riconoscere situazioni di insorgenza o peggioramento di patologie nell'anziano.Source: ISTI Project Report, ChAALenge, D6.1, 2022
Miori V., Belli D., Bacco M F., Baronti P., Barsocchi P., Crivello A., Furfari F., Girolami M., La Rosa D., Mavilia F., Palumbo F., Pillitteri L., Potortì F., Russo D.
In questo documento viene posta particolare attenzione alla malattia dello scompenso cardiaco che è una delle maggiori cause di mortalità e disabilità nella popolazione anziana oltre ad essere la prima causa di ricovero. Sono analizzate le soluzioni di monitoraggio domestico attualmente disponibili e i requisiti tecnici da soddisfare per poter raccogliere e analizzare i dati fisiologici nell'ambiente di vita e riconoscere situazioni di insorgenza o peggioramento di patologie nell'anziano.Source: ISTI Project Report, ChAALenge, D6.1, 2022
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2022
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ChAALenge D5.2 - Documento di definizione degli algoritmi di Machine Learning e Deep Learning
Miori V., Belli D., Bacco F. M., Baronti P., Barsocchi P., Crivello A., Furfari F., Girolami M., La Rosa D., Mavilia F., Palumbo F., Pillitteri L., Potortì F., Russo D.
Il deliverable ha come obiettivo la definizione di un percorso intraprendibile per lo sviluppo di un modello predittivo, efficace ed efficiente, basato sul paradigma machine learning, sviluppato in funzione del dominio applicativo in esame e dei dati a disposizione. Una parte verrà dedicata all'introduzione degli aspetti principali legati alle strategie di individuazione di anomalie in serie temporali multi-variate tramite il suddetto modello predittivo.Source: ISTI Project Report, ChAALenge, D5.2, 2022
Miori V., Belli D., Bacco F. M., Baronti P., Barsocchi P., Crivello A., Furfari F., Girolami M., La Rosa D., Mavilia F., Palumbo F., Pillitteri L., Potortì F., Russo D.
Il deliverable ha come obiettivo la definizione di un percorso intraprendibile per lo sviluppo di un modello predittivo, efficace ed efficiente, basato sul paradigma machine learning, sviluppato in funzione del dominio applicativo in esame e dei dati a disposizione. Una parte verrà dedicata all'introduzione degli aspetti principali legati alle strategie di individuazione di anomalie in serie temporali multi-variate tramite il suddetto modello predittivo.Source: ISTI Project Report, ChAALenge, D5.2, 2022
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2022
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ChAALenge - D6.2: Progettazione architettura e definizione delle modalità di integrazione delle macrofunzionalità nel framework (intermedio)
Bacco F. M., Baronti P., Barsocchi P., Crivello A., Furfari F., Girolami M., La Rosa D., Mavilia F., Miori V., Palumbo F., Pillitteri L., Potortì F., Russo D., Belli D.
Questo documento riporta l'analisi relativa alla progettazione del framework di integrazione delle funzionalità, come previsto dal progetto ChAALenge. In particolare, vengono in questa sede analizzate le tecnologie per lo sviluppo del middleware di comunicazione e le modalità di interfacciamento con le soluzioni sensoristiche individuate.Source: ISTI Project Report, ChAALenge, D6.2, 2022
Bacco F. M., Baronti P., Barsocchi P., Crivello A., Furfari F., Girolami M., La Rosa D., Mavilia F., Miori V., Palumbo F., Pillitteri L., Potortì F., Russo D., Belli D.
Questo documento riporta l'analisi relativa alla progettazione del framework di integrazione delle funzionalità, come previsto dal progetto ChAALenge. In particolare, vengono in questa sede analizzate le tecnologie per lo sviluppo del middleware di comunicazione e le modalità di interfacciamento con le soluzioni sensoristiche individuate.Source: ISTI Project Report, ChAALenge, D6.2, 2022
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2021
Journal article
Open Access
Discovering location based services: a unified approach for heterogeneous indoor localization systems
Furfari F., Crivello A., Baronti P., Barsocchi P., Girolami M., Palumbo F., Quezada-Gaibor D., Mendoza Silva G. M., Torres-Sospedra J.
The technological solutions and communication capabilities offered by the Internet of Things paradigm, in terms of raising availability of wearable devices, the ubiquitous internet connection, and the presence on the market of service-oriented solutions, have allowed a wide proposal of Location Based Services (LBS). In a close future, we foresee that companies and service providers will have developed reliable solutions to address indoor positioning, as basis for useful location based services. These solutions will be different from each other and they will adopt different hardware and processing techniques. This paper describes the proposal of a unified approach for Indoor Localization Systems that enables the cooperation between heterogeneous solutions and their functional modules. To this end, we designed an integrated architecture that, abstracting its main components, allows a seamless interaction among them. Finally, we present a working prototype of such architecture, which is based on the popular Telegram application for Android, as an integration demonstrator. The integration of the three main phases -namely the discovery phase, the User Agent self-configuration, and the indoor map retrieval/rendering- demonstrates the feasibility of the proposed integrated architecture.Source: Internet of Things 13 (2021): 1–14. doi:10.1016/j.iot.2020.100334
DOI: 10.1016/j.iot.2020.100334
Project(s): A-WEAR
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Furfari F., Crivello A., Baronti P., Barsocchi P., Girolami M., Palumbo F., Quezada-Gaibor D., Mendoza Silva G. M., Torres-Sospedra J.
The technological solutions and communication capabilities offered by the Internet of Things paradigm, in terms of raising availability of wearable devices, the ubiquitous internet connection, and the presence on the market of service-oriented solutions, have allowed a wide proposal of Location Based Services (LBS). In a close future, we foresee that companies and service providers will have developed reliable solutions to address indoor positioning, as basis for useful location based services. These solutions will be different from each other and they will adopt different hardware and processing techniques. This paper describes the proposal of a unified approach for Indoor Localization Systems that enables the cooperation between heterogeneous solutions and their functional modules. To this end, we designed an integrated architecture that, abstracting its main components, allows a seamless interaction among them. Finally, we present a working prototype of such architecture, which is based on the popular Telegram application for Android, as an integration demonstrator. The integration of the three main phases -namely the discovery phase, the User Agent self-configuration, and the indoor map retrieval/rendering- demonstrates the feasibility of the proposed integrated architecture.Source: Internet of Things 13 (2021): 1–14. doi:10.1016/j.iot.2020.100334
DOI: 10.1016/j.iot.2020.100334
Project(s): A-WEAR
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Internet of Things | Recolector de Ciencia Abierta, RECOLECTA | ISTI Repository | www.sciencedirect.com | ZENODO | CNR ExploRA
2021
Journal article
Open Access
Off-line evaluation of indoor positioning systems in different scenarios: the experiences from IPIN 2020 competition
Potortì F., Torres-Sospedra J., Quezada-Gaibor D., Jiménez A. R., Seco F., Pérez-Navarro A., Ortiz M., Zhu N., Renaudin V., Ichikari R., Shimomura R., Ohta N., Nagae S., Kurata T., Wei D., Ji X., Zhang W., Kram S., Stahlke M., Mutschler C., Crivello A., Barsocchi P., Girolami M., Palumbo F., Chen R., Wu Y., Li W., Yu Y., Xu S., Huang L., Liu T., Kuang J., Niu X., Yoshida T., Nagata Y., Fukushima Y., Fukatani N., Hayashida N., Asai Y., Urano K., Ge W., Lee N. T., Fang S. H., Jie Y. C., Young S. R., Chien Y. R., Yua C. C., Ma C., Wub B., Zhangc W., Wang Y., Fan Y., Poslad S., Selviah D. R., Wangd W., Yuan H., Yonamoto Y., Yamaguchi M., Kaichi T., Zhou B., Liue X., Gu Z., Yang C., Wu Z., Xie D., Huang C., Zheng L., Peng A., Jin G., Wangh Q., Luo H., Xiong H., Bao L., Zhangi P., Zhao F., Yuj C. A., Hung C. H., Antsfeld L., Chidlovskii B., Jiang H., Xia M., Yan D., Li Y., Dong Y., Silva I., Pendão C., Meneses F., Nicolau M. J., Costa A., Moreira A., De Cock C., Plets D., Opiela M., Dzama J., Zhang L., Li H., Chen B., Liu Y., Yean S., Lim B. Z., Teo W. J., Leep B. S., Oh H. L.
Every year, for ten years now, the IPIN competition has aimed at evaluating real-world indoor localisation systems by testing them in a realistic environment, with realistic movement, using the EvAAL framework. The competition provided a unique overview of the state-of-the-art of systems, technologies, and methods for indoor positioning and navigation purposes. Through fair comparison of the performance achieved by each system, the competition was able to identify the most promising approaches and to pinpoint the most critical working conditions. In 2020, the competition included 5 diverse off-site off-site Tracks, each resembling real use cases and challenges for indoor positioning. The results in terms of participation and accuracy of the proposed systems have been encouraging. The best performing competitors obtained a third quartile of error of 1m for the Smartphone Track and 0.5m for the Foot-mounted IMU Track. While not running on physical systems, but only as algorithms, these results represent impressive achievements.Source: IEEE sensors journal (Online) 22 (2021): 5011–5054. doi:10.1109/JSEN.2021.3083149
DOI: 10.1109/jsen.2021.3083149
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Potortì F., Torres-Sospedra J., Quezada-Gaibor D., Jiménez A. R., Seco F., Pérez-Navarro A., Ortiz M., Zhu N., Renaudin V., Ichikari R., Shimomura R., Ohta N., Nagae S., Kurata T., Wei D., Ji X., Zhang W., Kram S., Stahlke M., Mutschler C., Crivello A., Barsocchi P., Girolami M., Palumbo F., Chen R., Wu Y., Li W., Yu Y., Xu S., Huang L., Liu T., Kuang J., Niu X., Yoshida T., Nagata Y., Fukushima Y., Fukatani N., Hayashida N., Asai Y., Urano K., Ge W., Lee N. T., Fang S. H., Jie Y. C., Young S. R., Chien Y. R., Yua C. C., Ma C., Wub B., Zhangc W., Wang Y., Fan Y., Poslad S., Selviah D. R., Wangd W., Yuan H., Yonamoto Y., Yamaguchi M., Kaichi T., Zhou B., Liue X., Gu Z., Yang C., Wu Z., Xie D., Huang C., Zheng L., Peng A., Jin G., Wangh Q., Luo H., Xiong H., Bao L., Zhangi P., Zhao F., Yuj C. A., Hung C. H., Antsfeld L., Chidlovskii B., Jiang H., Xia M., Yan D., Li Y., Dong Y., Silva I., Pendão C., Meneses F., Nicolau M. J., Costa A., Moreira A., De Cock C., Plets D., Opiela M., Dzama J., Zhang L., Li H., Chen B., Liu Y., Yean S., Lim B. Z., Teo W. J., Leep B. S., Oh H. L.
Every year, for ten years now, the IPIN competition has aimed at evaluating real-world indoor localisation systems by testing them in a realistic environment, with realistic movement, using the EvAAL framework. The competition provided a unique overview of the state-of-the-art of systems, technologies, and methods for indoor positioning and navigation purposes. Through fair comparison of the performance achieved by each system, the competition was able to identify the most promising approaches and to pinpoint the most critical working conditions. In 2020, the competition included 5 diverse off-site off-site Tracks, each resembling real use cases and challenges for indoor positioning. The results in terms of participation and accuracy of the proposed systems have been encouraging. The best performing competitors obtained a third quartile of error of 1m for the Smartphone Track and 0.5m for the Foot-mounted IMU Track. While not running on physical systems, but only as algorithms, these results represent impressive achievements.Source: IEEE sensors journal (Online) 22 (2021): 5011–5054. doi:10.1109/JSEN.2021.3083149
DOI: 10.1109/jsen.2021.3083149
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2021
Contribution to book
Embargo
System interoperability for next gen services at home. A challenge/opportunity for integration
Candea C., Palumbo F., Girolami M., Segato D., Candea G. S.
Interoperability is complex non-functional requirement of any today' system, and it refers the exchanged information. Two systems must offer the possibility to exchange and use the data in order to be named "interoperable", meaning that the message sent must contain data (in a standard coded format) that can be interpreted by the system that will receive it. The next section describes the challenges encounter during the integration activities from the interoperability point of view for the next gen of systems that offer services at home.Source: Digital Health Technology for Better Aging. A multidisciplinary approach, edited by G. Andreoni, C. Mambretti, pp. 129–144, 2021
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-72663-8_8
Project(s): NESTORE
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Candea C., Palumbo F., Girolami M., Segato D., Candea G. S.
Interoperability is complex non-functional requirement of any today' system, and it refers the exchanged information. Two systems must offer the possibility to exchange and use the data in order to be named "interoperable", meaning that the message sent must contain data (in a standard coded format) that can be interpreted by the system that will receive it. The next section describes the challenges encounter during the integration activities from the interoperability point of view for the next gen of systems that offer services at home.Source: Digital Health Technology for Better Aging. A multidisciplinary approach, edited by G. Andreoni, C. Mambretti, pp. 129–144, 2021
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-72663-8_8
Project(s): NESTORE
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2021
Contribution to book
Embargo
Monitoring in the physical domain to support active ageing
Denna E., Civiello M., Porcelli S., Crivello A., Mavilia F., Palumbo F.
Monitoring system have been customized to collect data and to analyse several aspects of the users' life, the reason of this custom solution came from the needs to join physical activity of the user, life usage, social interaction and mind activities, all these features are not present in standard devices all together, so we arrived to a new system architecture where the monitoring system is the first front end versus the user. This chapter describes the general monitoring system architecture and provides insight into the contribution and role of sensors. Such sensing solutions are not only designed to match the needs and requirements of the user but also to reduce intrusiveness and usage complexity. By doing so the system is designed around the life of its users and maximizes the effectiveness of data collection. Example from NESTORE project are taken as reference.Source: Digital Health Technology for Better Aging. A multidisciplinary approach, edited by G. Andreoni, C. Mambretti, pp. 55–76, 2021
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-72663-8_4
Project(s): NESTORE
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Denna E., Civiello M., Porcelli S., Crivello A., Mavilia F., Palumbo F.
Monitoring system have been customized to collect data and to analyse several aspects of the users' life, the reason of this custom solution came from the needs to join physical activity of the user, life usage, social interaction and mind activities, all these features are not present in standard devices all together, so we arrived to a new system architecture where the monitoring system is the first front end versus the user. This chapter describes the general monitoring system architecture and provides insight into the contribution and role of sensors. Such sensing solutions are not only designed to match the needs and requirements of the user but also to reduce intrusiveness and usage complexity. By doing so the system is designed around the life of its users and maximizes the effectiveness of data collection. Example from NESTORE project are taken as reference.Source: Digital Health Technology for Better Aging. A multidisciplinary approach, edited by G. Andreoni, C. Mambretti, pp. 55–76, 2021
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-72663-8_4
Project(s): NESTORE
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2021
Conference article
Open Access
Inclusion design and functionalities of a personalized virtual coach for wellbeing to facilitate a universal access for older adults
El Kamali M., Angelini L., Caon M., Carrino F., Standoli C. E., Perego P., Andreoni G., Palumbo F., Mastropietro A., Khaled O. A., Mugellini E.
The current research proposes a technological system "NESTORE" designed for and with older adults in four different countries in order to improve and sustain their wellbeing. The system personalized activities and architecture, co-designed interfaces, and its multilingual aspect aim to establish an 'inclusion' criterion based on the user's sociocultural profile and health condition.Source: IEA 2021 - 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, pp. 239–246, Online conference, 13-18/06/2021
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-74605-6_30
Project(s): NESTORE
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El Kamali M., Angelini L., Caon M., Carrino F., Standoli C. E., Perego P., Andreoni G., Palumbo F., Mastropietro A., Khaled O. A., Mugellini E.
The current research proposes a technological system "NESTORE" designed for and with older adults in four different countries in order to improve and sustain their wellbeing. The system personalized activities and architecture, co-designed interfaces, and its multilingual aspect aim to establish an 'inclusion' criterion based on the user's sociocultural profile and health condition.Source: IEA 2021 - 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, pp. 239–246, Online conference, 13-18/06/2021
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-74605-6_30
Project(s): NESTORE
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2021
Journal article
Open Access
A multi-domain ontology on healthy ageing for the characterization of older adults status and behaviour
Mastropietro A., Palumbo F., Orte S., Girolami M., Furfari F., Baronti P., Candea C., Roecke C., Tarro L., Sykora M., Porcelli S., Rizzo G.
Ageing is a multi-factorial physiological process and the development of novel IoT systems, tools and devices, specifically targeted to older people, must be based on a holistic framework built on robust scientific knowledge in different health domains. Furthermore, interoperability must be guaranteed using standardized frameworks or approaches. These aspects still largely lack in the specific literature. The main aim of the paper is to develop a new ontology (the NESTORE ontology) to extend the available ontologies provided by universAAL-IoT (uAAL-IoT). The ontology is based on a multidomain healthy ageing holistic model, structuring well-assessed scientific knowledge, specifically targeted to healthy older adults aged between 65 and 75. The tool is intended to support, and standardize heterogeneous data about ageing in compliance with the uAAL-IoT framework. The NESTORE ontology covers all the relevant concepts to represent 3 significant domains of ageing: (1) Physiological Status and Physical Activity Behaviour; (2) Nutrition; and (3) Cognitive and Mental Status and Social Behaviour. In total, 12 sub-ontologies were modelled with more than 60 classes and sub-classes referenced among them by using more than 100 relations and around 20 enumerations. The proposed ontology increases the uAAL collection by 40%. NESTORE ontology provides innovation both in terms of semantic content and technological approach. The thorough use of this ontology can support the development of a decision support system, to promote healthy ageing, with the capacity to do dynamic multi-scale modelling of user-specific data based on the semantic annotations of users' profile.Source: Journal of ambient intelligence & humanized computing (Print) (2021). doi:10.1007/s12652-021-03627-6
DOI: 10.1007/s12652-021-03627-6
Project(s): NESTORE
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Mastropietro A., Palumbo F., Orte S., Girolami M., Furfari F., Baronti P., Candea C., Roecke C., Tarro L., Sykora M., Porcelli S., Rizzo G.
Ageing is a multi-factorial physiological process and the development of novel IoT systems, tools and devices, specifically targeted to older people, must be based on a holistic framework built on robust scientific knowledge in different health domains. Furthermore, interoperability must be guaranteed using standardized frameworks or approaches. These aspects still largely lack in the specific literature. The main aim of the paper is to develop a new ontology (the NESTORE ontology) to extend the available ontologies provided by universAAL-IoT (uAAL-IoT). The ontology is based on a multidomain healthy ageing holistic model, structuring well-assessed scientific knowledge, specifically targeted to healthy older adults aged between 65 and 75. The tool is intended to support, and standardize heterogeneous data about ageing in compliance with the uAAL-IoT framework. The NESTORE ontology covers all the relevant concepts to represent 3 significant domains of ageing: (1) Physiological Status and Physical Activity Behaviour; (2) Nutrition; and (3) Cognitive and Mental Status and Social Behaviour. In total, 12 sub-ontologies were modelled with more than 60 classes and sub-classes referenced among them by using more than 100 relations and around 20 enumerations. The proposed ontology increases the uAAL collection by 40%. NESTORE ontology provides innovation both in terms of semantic content and technological approach. The thorough use of this ontology can support the development of a decision support system, to promote healthy ageing, with the capacity to do dynamic multi-scale modelling of user-specific data based on the semantic annotations of users' profile.Source: Journal of ambient intelligence & humanized computing (Print) (2021). doi:10.1007/s12652-021-03627-6
DOI: 10.1007/s12652-021-03627-6
Project(s): NESTORE
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2020
Journal article
Open Access
Remote detection of social interactions in indoor environments through bluetooth low energy beacons
Baronti P., Barsocchi P., Chessa S., Crivello A., Girolami M., Mavilia F., Palumbo F.
The way people interact in daily life is a challenging phenomenon to be captured and studied without altering the natural rhythm of the interactions. We investigate the development of automated tools that may provide information to the researchers that analyse interactions among humans. One important requirement of these tools is that should not interfere with the subjects under observation, in order to avoid any alteration in the subject's normal behaviour. Our approach is based on the detection of proximity among groups of people that is obtained using commercial wearable wireless tags based on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and a novel algorithm called Remote Detection of Human Proximity (ReD-HuP) that analyses the wireless signal of tags and produce the proximity information. The algorithm, which has been validated against the ground truth of an experimental dataset, achieves an accuracy of 95.91% and an F-Score of 95.79%.Source: Journal of ambient intelligence and smart environments (Print) 12 (2020): 203–217. doi:10.3233/AIS-200560
DOI: 10.3233/ais-200560
Project(s): NESTORE
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Baronti P., Barsocchi P., Chessa S., Crivello A., Girolami M., Mavilia F., Palumbo F.
The way people interact in daily life is a challenging phenomenon to be captured and studied without altering the natural rhythm of the interactions. We investigate the development of automated tools that may provide information to the researchers that analyse interactions among humans. One important requirement of these tools is that should not interfere with the subjects under observation, in order to avoid any alteration in the subject's normal behaviour. Our approach is based on the detection of proximity among groups of people that is obtained using commercial wearable wireless tags based on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and a novel algorithm called Remote Detection of Human Proximity (ReD-HuP) that analyses the wireless signal of tags and produce the proximity information. The algorithm, which has been validated against the ground truth of an experimental dataset, achieves an accuracy of 95.91% and an F-Score of 95.79%.Source: Journal of ambient intelligence and smart environments (Print) 12 (2020): 203–217. doi:10.3233/AIS-200560
DOI: 10.3233/ais-200560
Project(s): NESTORE
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2020
Master thesis
Restricted
A survey on the use of 802.11 Channel State Information in device-free applications: indoor localization and human activity and gesture recognition
Uccheddu M. C.
It presents a survey on device-free applications using 802.11n Channel State Information (CSI). The survey analyzed device-free indoor localization works, human activity recognition works and gesture recognition works. For each work are described the system setting, the experimental environments and finally the evaluation. There is also the description of my personal implementation of a device-free indoor signal-based system setting, that was deployed at Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) in Pisa.
Uccheddu M. C.
It presents a survey on device-free applications using 802.11n Channel State Information (CSI). The survey analyzed device-free indoor localization works, human activity recognition works and gesture recognition works. For each work are described the system setting, the experimental environments and finally the evaluation. There is also the description of my personal implementation of a device-free indoor signal-based system setting, that was deployed at Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) in Pisa.
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etd.adm.unipi.it | CNR ExploRA