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. 2021 Nov 28;21(23):7938.
doi: 10.3390/s21237938.

The SHAPES Smart Mirror Approach for Independent Living, Healthy and Active Ageing

Javier Dorado Chaparro  1 , Jesus Fernandez-Bermejo Ruiz  1 , Maria J Santofimia Romero  1 , Cristina Bolaños Peño  1 , Luis Unzueta Irurtia  2 , Meritxell Garcia Perea  2 , Xavier Del Toro Garcia  1 , Felix J Villanueva Molina  1 , Sonja Grigoleit  3 , Juan C Lopez  1
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The SHAPES Smart Mirror Approach for Independent Living, Healthy and Active Ageing

Javier Dorado Chaparro et al. Sensors (Basel). .

Abstract

The benefits that technology can provide in terms of health and support for independent living are in many cases not enough to break the barriers that prevent older adults from accepting and embracing technology. This work proposes a hardware and software platform based on a smart mirror, which is equipped with a set of digital solutions whose main focus is to overcome older adults' reluctance to use technology at home and wearable devices on the move. The system has been developed in the context of two use cases: the support of independent living for older individuals with neurodegenerative diseases and the promotion of physical rehabilitation activities at home. Aspects such as reliability, usability, consumption of computational resources, performance and accuracy of the proposed platform and digital solutions have been evaluated in the initial stages of the pilots within the SHAPES project, an EU-funded innovation action. It can be concluded that the SHAPES smart mirror has the potential to contribute as a technological breakthrough to overcome the barriers that prevent older adults from engaging in the use of assistive technologies.

Keywords: active ageing; ambient assisted living; elderly; internet of things; smart mirror; user-centred design.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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The SHAPES smart mirror ecosystem.
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Use cases timeline defined in the SHAPES methodology.
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Smart mirror SolidWorks prototype.
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Component positioning at the back of the smart mirror platform.
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Elements intervening in the call service.
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The call service interface.
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Wristband RFID writer device.
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The interface for the RFID writer device.
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Fall detector.
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Physical activity monitor.
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Dashboard of the physical activity monitor.
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Phyx.io physical rehabilitation kiosk.
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Examples of reference orofacial gesture images.
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Services provided by Rhasspy for the voice assistant.
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Voice assistant workflow.
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Reminders sent to the Mi Band 4 smart band.
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ZigBee devices coordinated by a zzh!
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Architecture of the home monitoring system.
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Door and window sensor to detect opening and closing events and the current state.
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PIR-type movement sensor to detect presence in a room.
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Temperature and humidity sensor to monitor comfort in a room.
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Raspberry pi 4 and zzh! providing gateway functionalities to integrate home sensors.
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Floor plan of the home.
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Sensors deployed in the living room.
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Sensors deployed in the toilet.
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Sensors in the kitchen.
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Sensors in the bedroom.
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Dashboard for environment monitoring.
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Confusion matrix of the trained orofacial gesture detector.
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Boxplots of the heart rate registered by the wristbands corresponding to the six participants during the preliminary piloting test.
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Accumulated steps registered by the wristbands corresponding to the six participants during the preliminary piloting test.
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