A Smart Kitchen for Ambient Assisted Living

The kitchen environment is one of the scenarios in the home where users can benefit from Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) applications. Moreover, it is the place where old people suffer from most domestic injuries. This paper presents a novel design, implementation and assessment of a Smart Kitchen whi...

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Veröffentlicht in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Jg. 14; H. 1; S. 1629 - 1653
Hauptverfasser: Blasco, Rubén, Marco, Álvaro, Casas, Roberto, Cirujano, Diego, Picking, Richard
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Switzerland MDPI AG 17.01.2014
Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
Schlagworte:
Aging
ambient assisted living
ambient intelligence
Architecture
Artificial Intelligence
Assessments
Assisted Living Facilities
Complex systems
Computer programs
context and user awareness
distributed sensor networks
Humans
Intelligence
Kitchens
Modular
Older people
OSGi
Sensors
smart homes
Software
Spain
United Kingdom
User-Computer Interface
United Kingdom > UK
Spain
ISSN:1424-8220, 1424-8220
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Zusammenfassung:The kitchen environment is one of the scenarios in the home where users can benefit from Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) applications. Moreover, it is the place where old people suffer from most domestic injuries. This paper presents a novel design, implementation and assessment of a Smart Kitchen which provides Ambient Assisted Living services; a smart environment that increases elderly and disabled people’s autonomy in their kitchen-related activities through context and user awareness, appropriate user interaction and artificial intelligence. It is based on a modular architecture which integrates a wide variety of home technology (household appliances, sensors, user interfaces, etc.) and associated communication standards and media (power line, radio frequency, infrared and cabled). Its software architecture is based on the Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi), which allows building a complex system composed of small modules, each one providing the specific functionalities required, and can be easily scaled to meet our needs. The system has been evaluated by a large number of real users (63) and carers (31) in two living labs in Spain and UK. Results show a large potential of system functionalities combined with good usability and physical, sensory and cognitive accessibility.
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ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s140101629