Home Supporting Smart Systems for Elderly People

Abstract

Smart devices are becoming more and more, over time, familiar tools to our lives. This, coupled with the need to support elderly people in their daily routine and their desire for aging-in-place, has led researchers to explore and develop solutions to support them in their home. Nowadays, it is common for smart devices, smart systems, and wearable devices to assist elderly people carrying out a number of their day-to-day activities, keeping their social lives active, and monitoring their health and well-being. In this chapter, smart devices and systems that have been proposed for supporting the elderly in their home environment will be presented. Special effort was given to present in detail each work, in order to assist anyone, who reads this chapter, to understand not only the historical evolution of the research topic but also the milestones and the breakthrough research results. Also, the technologies that have been used for the development of the respective systems, as well as the techniques for interacting and assisting the elderly, are reported. Concluding, this chapter serves as a survey for every researcher who wants to understand and research in the topic of smart home monitoring for the elders. © 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.