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. 2020 Oct 14:2:545949.
doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2020.545949. eCollection 2020.

"Hi This Is NESTORE, Your Personal Assistant": Design of an Integrated IoT System for a Personalized Coach for Healthy Aging

Filippo Palumbo  1 , Antonino Crivello  1 , Francesco Furfari  1 , Michele Girolami  1 , Alfonso Mastropietro  2 , Giorgio Manferdelli  2 , Christina Röcke  3 , Sabrina Guye  3 , Antoni Salvá Casanovas  4 , Maurizio Caon  5 , Francesco Carrino  5 , Omar Abou Khaled  5 , Elena Mugellini  5 , Enrico Denna  6 , Marco Mauri  6 , David Ward  6 , Paula Subías-Beltrán  7 , Silvia Orte  7 , Ciprian Candea  8 , Gabriela Candea  8 , Giovanna Rizzo  2
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"Hi This Is NESTORE, Your Personal Assistant": Design of an Integrated IoT System for a Personalized Coach for Healthy Aging

Filippo Palumbo et al. Front Digit Health. .

Abstract

In the context of the fourth revolution in healthcare technologies, leveraging monitoring and personalization across different domains becomes a key factor for providing useful services to maintain and promote well-being. This is even more crucial for older people, with aging being a complex multi-dimensional and multi-factorial process which can lead to frailty. The NESTORE project was recently funded by the EU Commission with the aim of supporting healthy older people to sustain their well-being and capacity to live independently. It is based on a multi-dimensional model of the healthy aging process that covers physical activity, nutrition, cognition, and social activity. NESTORE is based on the paradigm of the human-in-the-loop cyber-physical system that, exploiting the availability of Internet of Things technologies combined with analytics in the cloud, provides a virtual coaching system to support healthy aging. This work describes the design of the NESTORE methodology and its IoT architecture. We first model the end-user under several domains, then we present the NESTORE system that, analyzing relevant key-markers, provides coaching activities and personalized feedback to the user. Finally, we describe the validation strategy to assess the effectiveness of NESTORE as a coaching platform for healthy aging.

Keywords: IoT; digital health; e-health; sensor network; virtual coach.

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Figure 1
The NESTORE coaching domains and subdomains.
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Figure 2
The NESTORE coaching system.
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Figure 3
Overall view of the NESTORE integrated IoT architecture: (A) shared functional modules and (B) used technological components.
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The NESTORE IoT architecture: (A) server-side components and (B) the Web of Things model.
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The NESTORE monitoring artifacts: (A) the wearable device; (B) the charging station; (C) the social and environmental beacons.
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Figure 6
Graphical ID framework translation of user input from co-design specialists report: (A) wearable device and (B) charging station.
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Figure 7
Overview of the monitoring system architecture.
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Figure 8
Overview of The DSS architecture.
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Figure 9
Feedback on the Social domain via the app interface.
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Figure 10
Meal logging via the chatbot interface.
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Figure 11
The tangible interface.
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Figure 12
NESTORE Study Design: Experimental and Control Group.
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