Daily life activity tracking application for smart homes using android smartphone

Abstract

Smart home is regarded as an independent healthy living for elderly person. Advances in phone technology and new style of computing paradigm (i.e., cloud computing) permits real time acquisition, processing, and tracking of activities in smart home. In this paper, we develop android smartphone application to assists elderly people for independent living in their own homes. It reduces the health expenditures and burden of health care professionals in care facility units. We assume smart home as an intelligent agent to perceive the environment and process the sensory data on cloud. Smartphone application communicates with cloud through web services and assists the elderly person to complete their daily life activities. It facilitates the care giver assistant by tracking the elderly persons in their own homes and avoids certain accidents. Furthermore, it also helps the family members to track the activities, when they are outside from homes.