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Theses and Dissertations
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Items in this Collection
- 2Smart homes
- 1Ambient Assisted Living
- 1Ambient-Assistive Living
- 1Indoor Localization
- 1Sensor Placement Optimization
- 1Visualization
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Spring 2016
The Smart-Condo™ project investigates how technology can be used to unobtrusively observe and support seniors to live independently in their homes longer. Sensors embedded in the environment react to the people’s daily-living activities and the recorded readings are analyzed to recognize these...
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Deployment Planning for Location Recognition in the Smart-Condo™: Simulation, Empirical Studies and Sensor Placement Optimization
DownloadFall 2013
The Smart-Condo™ is a comprehensive platform that aims to provide a variety of services, based on information gleaned from sensors deployed in an apartment, that can potentially improve healthcare delivery. One of our main objectives has been to develop an accurate non-invasive...