Elder Monitoring Mobile Assistant (EMMA)
EMMA stands for Elderly Mobile Monitoring Assistant and is a platform that seemlessy integrates telecare, telehealth and home
automation functionalities in one open system. The software platform is deployed on a base station which can connect to a multitude of
wireless body sensors (WBAN wireless body area network) and environmental sensors (WNS wireless network sensors) by means of
open standard wireless protocols.
- The current echo-system is based on two types of smart watch and several home automation devices such as PIR motion
sensors, temperature and light, door contact. The platform is based on the principles of open protocols, open hardware and open
source to be fully interoperable with other medical devices and home automation standards.
- The telecare module allows the users to define rules that generate events (most generally alarms) that can be delivered manually
or automatically to caregivers. This is mostly what we call a reactive strategy approach to care: the patient can deliver an alarm
or a particular pattern (like a fall) triggers an alarm to the caregiver.
- The telehealth module allows the caregiver to define a set of rules that tracks the patient/user performance in time. This is a
proactive strategy to care - a set of heuristic algorithms learns from typical patterns and predicts potential dangerous situations
that can be developed in time.
- The rules are adaptive thanks to the feedback generated by the caregiver, the user and the environment. The home automation
module allows the integration of existing smart home systems and the definition of rules for the management of the house or for
the generation of alarms.
