An Adaptive System for Home Monitoring Using a Multiagent Classification of Patterns

Table 1

Overview of the three projects.

Project
Criteria	PROSAFE	AILISA	e-Vital
Smart home equipment	Yes	Yes	No
	Equipment is installed in hospitals and residences of elderly people	Health smart homes
Body wear equipment	Yes	Yes	No
	Accelerometer (or GPS)	Smart shirts with fall sensors
Medical equipment	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Digital entries acquisition module	Wrist arterial pressure Pulse oximeter	Appropriate monitoring devices
Detected emergencies and supervised risks	Accidents Falls Escapes	Some medical risks Falls	Scheduled care Vital signs defection
Target	Elderly or handicapped people Patient with Alzheimer disease	Elderly people Handicapped people	People with chronic diseases
Project range (home, living environment)	At home and in hospital	At home	Living environment (that is at home but also in mobile situations)
Risk-detection method	Sensors and statistical methods	Mainly hardware	Data management and interpretation made by a multiagent system
Scale (how many people are concerned)	The system focuses on one patient but the profiling can be used in a more large scale system	The System is providing an individual help
Links to personal medical data	Yes	No	Patient’s electronic health record are stored in a hospital database (but this database is only used by the project)
Medical validation	Tested in three hospitals (three other sites are planned)	Planned in three hospitals	Tests take place in four European pilot sites
Ethical and psychological aspects	Technical mediation between health caregivers and patients	Technical mediation between caregivers and patients Psychiatric aspects	Not mentioned
Operational or experimental	Experimental	Experimental	Experimental