Real-Time Energy Measurement for Non-Intrusive Well-Being Monitoring of Elderly People -- a Case Study
This addresses non-intrusive well-being monitoring for elderly people and caregivers, but it is incremental as it applies existing anomaly detection methods to a new case study.
The study tackled monitoring elderly well-being by analyzing real-time electric power consumption from four participants aged 67-82 over a month, finding that it provides significant insights into daily activities and valuable information for caregivers in a non-intrusive way.
This article presents a case study demonstrating a non-intrusive method for the well-being monitoring of elderly people. It is based on our real-time energy measurement system, which uses tiny beacons attached to electricity meters. Four participants aged 67-82 years took part in our study. We observed their electric power consumption for approx. a month, and then we analyzed them, taking into account the participants' notes on their activities. We created typical daily usage profiles for each participant and used anomaly detection to find unusual energy consumption. We found out that real-time energy measurement can give significant insight into someone's daily activities and, consequently, bring invaluable information to caregivers about the well-being of an elderly person, while being discreet and entirely non-intrusive.