scholarly journals An IoT-Aware Architecture for Collecting and Managing Data Related to Elderly Behavior

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aitor Almeida ◽  
Alessandro Fiore ◽  
Luca Mainetti ◽  
Ruben Mulero ◽  
Luigi Patrono ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
World Population ◽  
Aged People ◽  
Clinical Procedures ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Data Capturing ◽  
Cognitive Diseases

The world population will be made up of a growing number of elderly people in the near future. Aged people are characterized by some physical and cognitive diseases, like mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and frailty, that, if not timely diagnosed, could turn into more severe diseases, like Alzheimer disease, thus implying high costs for treatments and cares. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) enabling the Internet of Things (IoT) can be adopted to create frameworks for monitoring elderly behavior which, alongside normal clinical procedures, can help geriatricians to early detect behavioral changes related to such pathologies and to provide customized interventions. As part of the City4Age project, this work describes a novel approach for collecting and managing data about elderly behavior during their normal activities. The data capturing layer is an unobtrusive and low-cost sensing infrastructure abstracting the heterogeneity of physical devices, while the data management layer easily manages the huge quantity of sensed data, giving them semantic meaning and fostering data shareability. This work provides a functional validation of the proposed architecture and introduces how the data it manages can be used by the whole City4Age platform to early identify risks related to MCI/frailty and promptly intervene.

The Datalogical Drug Mule

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-29
Author(s):  
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Biological Processes ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
Human Labor ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Data Capturing ◽  
Legal Structures

Borders and bodies are increasingly regulated by data-capturing mechanisms spread across the world through information and communication technologies. This article traces the features and implications of such a border-body datalogical entanglement through the figure of the drug mule. It analyzes government documents and recorded case studies to argue that this figure emerges from an assemblage of cultural narratives, legal structures, human labor, technical practices, and biological processes. The datalogical drug mule is already implicated in a struggle over what, and how, data is meaningful and actionable. Investigating this figure allows us to begin disentangling the data-driven mechanisms that constitute modern borders and bodies while at the same time accounting for analog continuities in contemporary practices of border security.

scholarly journals E-CONVERSE AN AFFORDABLE TOUCH SCREEN SOLUTION TO INTRIGUE DINING EXPERIENCE

2016 ◽  
pp. 21-25
Author(s):  
S. R. PATIL ◽  
SNEHAL SALUNKHE ◽  
NIKITA KULKARNI ◽  
PRIYANKA SAVANT
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Communication ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Touch Screen ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Basic Level

ample efforts have been taken in restaurant sector to intrigue the dining experience. Several information and communication technologies have been adopted earlier such as PDA; wireless communication technologies etc.These technologies provide a simple but powerful infrastructure. This paper highlights the limitations of the existing technologies and proposed the E-CONVERSE, which focuses on low cost touch-screen development to enhance the dining experience. In this paper we discuss the design and implementation of a low cost, customizable touch screen. To ensure the security of the system some security strategies are discussed. Basic level testing reveals that proposed system has potential for practical implementation and can overcome several drawbacks of existing system.

scholarly journals Monitoring and Support for Elderly People Using LoRa Communication Technologies: IoT Concepts and Applications

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 206
Author(s):  
José Paulo Lousado ◽  
Sandra Antunes
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
World Health ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Health Organization

The pandemic declared by the World Health Organization due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19) awakened us to a reality that most of us were previously unaware of—isolation, confinement and the massive use of information and communication technologies, as well as increased knowledge of the difficulties and limitations of their use. This article focuses on the rapid implementation of low-cost technologies, which allow us to answer a fundamental question: how can near real-time monitoring and follow-up of the elderly and their health conditions, as well as their homes, especially for those living in isolated and remote areas, be provided within their care and protect them from risky events? The system proposed here as a proof of concept uses low-cost devices for communication and data processing, supported by Long-Range (LoRa) technology and connection to The Things Network, incorporating various sensors, both personal and in the residence, allowing family members, neighbors and authorized entities, including security forces, to have access to the health condition of system users and the habitability of their homes, as well as their urgent needs, thus evidencing that it is possible, using low-cost systems, to implement sensor networks for monitoring the elderly using the LoRa gateway and other support infrastructures.

scholarly journals GeoSense: A Multimode Information and Communication System

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Sudharsan ◽  
J. Adinarayana ◽  
A. K. Tripathy ◽  
S. Ninomiya ◽  
M. Hirafuji ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Network Location ◽  
Open Hardware ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Information And Communication

Recent technological developments allowed to envision the low-power (solar power) and low-cost (open hardware) sensor devices (Agrisens/FieldServer/Flux Tower/FieldTwitter) with multimode (ZigBee/WiFi/3G/WebGIS) information and communication technologies (ICTs), a model in which is christened as GeoSense. Integrating these multimode and multi-level communication systems with distributed ambient sensory network location-based service (LBS) is a challenging task, which could be a potential technology for monitoring various natural phenomena. This integrated model is introduced to provide and assist the rural stakeholders with real-time decision support system (DSS) with dynamic information and modeling services for precision agriculture through GeoSense cloud service. This GeoSense research has been experimented in semiarid tropics in India under Indo-Japan initiative on multi-disciplinary ICT program.

Recreating the Place

2015 ◽  
pp. 290-301
Author(s):  
Tzung-De Lin
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
Tourism Promotion ◽  
Technological Tools ◽  
Domestic Tourism ◽  
Information And Communication

The development and uptake of information and communication technologies have provided tourism industries innovative opportunities to interact with potential tourists. Instead of focusing on the development and implementation of new technological tools with which much E-tourism research is concerned, this paper examines a case of tourism promotion in Japan made possible by the spread of video-sharing websites. The case shows a nontraditional, non-intuitive strategy. It reaches potential tourists and gains nationwide visibility at a relatively low cost by producing videos featuring an unappealing character who symbolizes the destination: Hakodate City. This strategy of promoting domestic tourism was preceded by other two popular strategies of tourism promotion in Japan, and the case is compared with them: popular media-induced tourism, particularly anime tourism, and local mascots.

Paarungsstrategien für hochpräzise Produkte*/Pairing strategies for high-precision products - Industrie 4.0 provides opportunities to produce at low cost while meeting growing demands for product precision

2016 ◽  
Vol 106 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 804-808
Author(s):  
R. Wagner ◽  
B. Häfner ◽  
G. Prof. Lanza
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Industrie 4.0 ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Quality Requirements ◽  
New Information ◽  
Production Strategies ◽  
Information And Communication

Steigende Anforderungen an die Produktqualität stellen Unternehmen vor die Herausforderung, günstige Produkte nahe der technologischen Fertigungsgrenzen zu produzieren. Die Paarung von Montagekomponenten mit angepassten Produktionsstrategien bietet in diesem Umfeld mögliche Lösungsansätze. Neue Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien im Kontext von Industrie 4.0 eröffnen hierfür neuartige Möglichkeiten.   Companies are faced with increasing product quality requirements to manufacture high quality products close to technological limits in a cost-effective way. The pairing of assembly components provides an approach to cope with this challenge by adapted production strategies. New information and communication technologies offer novel opportunities within „Industrie 4.0“.

scholarly journals Using Online Remote Laboratory in Agriculture Engineering and Electronic Training

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (06) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Abdelmoula Abouhilal ◽  
Amine Moulay Taj ◽  
Naima Taifi ◽  
Abdessamad Malaoui
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Irrigation System ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Experimental Manipulation ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
Remote Labs ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Engineering Training ◽  
Core Part

<p class="0abstract">Practical manipulations are a core part of engineering training education systems. Remote labs are a new method used for teaching and practicing experimental manipulation using the performance of information and communication technologies. This paper presents a study of two remote labs architecture using low cost embedded systems that could be addressed to the 3rd year bachelor degree students on renewable energy and others on electronics courses. The first manipulation is based on Arduino microcontroller to monitor an irrigation system powered by photovoltaic panels. In addition, the second manipulation uses a powerful PcDuino, to control remotely a logic electronic experience. A simple interface is developed to allow students and instructors to access to these manipulations. This study is aimed to improve the present education systems in the Moroccan universities by managing the practical manipulation for a large number of students, especially in the open-access faculties. Finally, this architecture can be easily extended to other disciplines and courses.</p>

scholarly journals Frequency of use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) Among Women Farmers in Agricultural Development Programme Zones in Oyo State, Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Women Farmers ◽  
Sampled Data ◽  
Monthly Income ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Average Monthly Income

The potential of ICTs in retrieving vast amount of agricultural information at relatively low cost is invaluable, hence the study assessed the frequency of use of ICTs among women farmers in Agricultural Development Zones in Oyo State. A total of 120 respondents were sampled. Data were retrieved using interview schedule and were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Statistics reveal respondents average age, average household size and average monthly income as x =45.8, x =10.6 and x = ₦7,800.34 respectively, majority (86.7%) were married, 58.3 % representing respondents with primary education. Mobile phone was the most available (x=0.98) and the most frequently used (x=1.83 ) ICT by the respondents among all the ICTs available. Provision of information on fertilizer sources and application ( x=1.66) was the benefit derived most from the use of ICTs while poor ICTs infrastructure ( x=1.55) and difficulty in the utilization of ICTs gadgets (x=1.62) ranked highest as constraints to the utilization of ICTs. Significant relationship existed between respondents average monthly income (r= 0.492, p=0.000), educational level (χ2 = 4.726, p= 0.021) constraints to the utilization of ICTs (r=0.423 p=0.000) and utilization of ICTs. Scaling up the ICTs infrastructure base around farming clusters and capacity building on enhancing the utilization of mobile phones for agricultural information retrieval is advocated for women farmers.

Experimental E-Deliberation in Taiwan

2009 ◽  
pp. 323-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don-yun Chen ◽  
Tong-yi Huang ◽  
Naiyi Hsiao ◽  
Tze-Luen Lin ◽  
Chung-Pin Lee
Keyword(s):  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
National Level ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Time Constraints ◽  
Critical Question ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Information And Communication

This chapter introduces a case of e-deliberation in Taiwan. Democratic deepening can be achieved by the application of information and communication technologies (ICTs), based upon their ability to connect people at a relatively low cost. Following the theories and application of deliberative democracy and e-government, experimentation is increasingly being conducted to answer the critical question: “will ICTs help?” It offers a quasi-experimental design of two citizen conferences held simultaneously in the Beitou area of Taipei, Taiwan; one face-to-face and the other online, with all other factors being equal. The results suggest that whilst online conferencing is as good as face-to-face conferencing on all fronts (with the single exception of time constraints), the expansion of e-deliberation to county- or national-level issues presents significant challenges. More evidence from further experimentation will be required to form viable strategies for fulfilling the “e-dream” of revitalizing democracy through ICTs at community, local, and national levels.

scholarly journals Analyzing the Impact of COVID-19 on Education Professionals. Toward a Paradigm Shift: ICT and Neuroeducation as a Binomial of Action

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 5646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Espino-Díaz ◽  
Gemma Fernandez-Caminero ◽  
Carmen-Maria Hernandez-Lloret ◽  
Hugo Gonzalez-Gonzalez ◽  
Jose-Luis Alvarez-Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Education Professionals ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Impact

This study analyzed the current situation of education in the context of the pandemic caused by COVID-19. The worldwide health emergency situation has caused the confinement of people and with it, the closure of centers and the transfer of face-to-face education to online education. Faced with these facts, teachers have had to adapt at a dizzying pace not only to new methodological approaches, but also to their own confinement, presenting high levels of stress. The purpose of this study is to offer a proposal that optimizes the work of education professionals in the current context of a pandemic through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) under the novel approach of the contributions of neuroeducation in the field of managing emotions and motivational processes, contributing to meaningful learning in students. The symbiosis of ICT and neuroeducation can make a great contribution to the paradigm shift that is taking place today.

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