TY - GEN
T1 - Photonic sensors for non-invasive home monitoring of elders
AU - Nepomuceno, Ana Catarina
AU - Antunes, Paulo
AU - Alberto, Nelia
AU - Andre, Paulo
AU - Chi, Hao Ran
AU - Radwan, Ayman
AU - Domingues, M. Fatima
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER), through the Regional Operational Programme of Lisbon (POR LISBOA 2020) and the Regional Operational Programme of Centre (CENTRO 2020) of the Portugal 2020 framework [Project Safe-Home with Nr. 072082 (CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-072082)]; This work is also funded by FCT/MCTES through national funds and when applicable co-funded EU funds under the project UIDB/50008/2020-UIDP/50008/2020, and the internal project X-0005-AV-20-NICE-HOME. The work of author Ayman Radwan was supported by FCT / MEC through Programa Operacional Regional do Centro and by the European Union through the European Social Fund (ESF) under Investigador FCT Grant (5G-AHEAD IF/FCT-IF/01393/2015/CP1310/CT0002). Author Domingues and Alberto acknowledge the scientific action REACT and PREDICT, co-funded by FEDER – PT2020 partnership agreement under the project UID/EEA/50008/2019 FCT.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In this paper, we present an optical fiber based architecture for non-invasive home monitoring of elder citizens. The approach is based on a network of optical fiber sensors distributed along the space/room to be monitored. The sensing mechanism is based on optical fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors, produced by the phase mask method and integrated within an accelerometer structure. This type of sensing solution has high sensitivity, allied with an extra resilience. Here we present the proposed architecture, the evaluation of different parameters that influence the accelerometer feedback, and the theoretical approach for indoor localization using this type of sensing mechanism. One advantage of the proposed solution is that it does not depend on wearables, which are considered burden for elders.
AB - In this paper, we present an optical fiber based architecture for non-invasive home monitoring of elder citizens. The approach is based on a network of optical fiber sensors distributed along the space/room to be monitored. The sensing mechanism is based on optical fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors, produced by the phase mask method and integrated within an accelerometer structure. This type of sensing solution has high sensitivity, allied with an extra resilience. Here we present the proposed architecture, the evaluation of different parameters that influence the accelerometer feedback, and the theoretical approach for indoor localization using this type of sensing mechanism. One advantage of the proposed solution is that it does not depend on wearables, which are considered burden for elders.
KW - accelerometer
KW - elders monitoring
KW - Fiber Bragg grating (FBG)
KW - gait analysis
KW - non-invasive indoor localization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85127234537&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/GLOBECOM46510.2021.9685192
DO - 10.1109/GLOBECOM46510.2021.9685192
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85127234537
T3 - 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2021 - Proceedings
BT - 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2021 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2021
Y2 - 7 December 2021 through 11 December 2021
ER -