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Marco Mezzalama – 16.06.2011 1

Technologies for Disability

and Ageing Society

Prof. Marco Mezzalama


A multidisciplinary topic

ICT technology

Mechatronics/Robotics

Nanotechnology

New materials

………………..


1800

1900

Disruptive technologies

Technologies represent an enabling factor in

industrial and social changes 2000


(da “Il futuro che c'è già”Ed. Il sole 24 Ore)

“Parleremo con i canie con i gatti, attraversoun traduttoreappeso al collare”

“Le cose capirannoi nostri desideri e ci copriranno di emozioni”

“Le scarpe ci diranno dove andare vibrando sulla punta e sui lati”


• New Information Technologies are

known to be:

– Pervasive

– Mobile

– Dynamic

Emerging ICT


In the last 10 years:

• Computer power is increased by

a factor = 10.000

• Performances in terms of

components per mm2 increased

by a factor = 1000

• Performance in term of bandwith

increased by a factor = 1000

ICT dynamics


New opportunities…

ENERGY: Clean Energy Production & Distribution

RETURN TO BETTER ENVIRONMENTAL BALANCE: Energy Saving,

Environmental Monitoring …

AGEING WEALTHY POPULATION : Quality of life, Entertainment …

CLEAN TRANSPORTATION: Electric Engines, Active traffic management …

CONSUMER ROBOTICS: Humanoids …

LIFE SCIENCE: Strive for Eternity …

… JUST TO MENTION A FEW OF THEM …


The Internet today

• A network designed and planned for human users

• 1B fixed+mobile devices connected today, but forecasts

give a five-fold increase in the next 5 years

• Often asymmetric connectivity (upload/download), due to

the traditional paradigm (data in the core, users at the

edge)


The Internet of Things


Intelligenza nelprodotto e nei processi

Un auto di media cilindrata dispone di più di 30 tra microprocessori

e sensori intelligenti (un buon numero di KB di sw) in Italia

EMBEDDED SYSTEM


Intelligenza nelprodotto e nei processi

Nel 2011 si venderannocirca 4 milioni di pc, ma 14milioni di elettrodomestici,

l’80% dei quali ha 1 o 2microprocessori e qualche migliaio di

istruzioni


Internet of Things

WLAN

INTERNET

gateway

Connecting the digital and the phisical

worlds!


Information system architecture

companies

Homes

Mobile

Sensing,

Monitoring,

Ambient

intelligence


New challenges, emerging markets

• Indoor/Outdoor Environmental Monitoring

• Home Automation

• Health and Welness Monitoring

• Power Monitoring

• Security and Tracking


The IoT edge: Ad hoc wireless networking

• Heterogeneous devices help

each other by relying data using

a hop-by-hop technique

• Each single communication takes

place over a short range,

therefore using little power

• In order to further reduce power

consumption, the data exchange

pattern and timing must be

carefully planned (also based on

the specific application)

• NB: AHN does not refer

necessarily to low power, short

range, wireless contexts!


• Small (wearable)

• Distributed (requires wireless)

• Intelligent (computing power, algorithms)

• Low power (long lasting batteries)

• In a word... Smart

New ICT systems need to be...


Technological challenges

Key Communication Technologies

• Broadband Infrastructure

• Wireless Infrastructure (Cellular, WLAN, etc)

• Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) (BT, Zigbee…..)

• Powerline Communications

EnablingTechnologies

• ULSI (Ultra Large Scale Integration)

• SELF POWERED DEVICES (battery less)

• Video/Audio/Encryption/Security

And Sw,Sw,Sw………..


SW enabling technologies examples

HMI (human machine interface)

• Ergonomy in terminals and systems (hw/sw)

• Cognitive models for non technology oriented users

AI (Artificial Intelligence) and data mining

• Automatic and remote diagnosis

WEB 2.0

• Social networks in support of limited mobility

• and much more


ICT and health care: two domains

• Hospital context

• Home context


(From the EU Action Plan for ageing well in the Information Society)


Helping the individual…

• At work

– Staying active and productive longer

– Better quality of work and work-life balance

• In the Community

– Overcoming isolation and loneliness

– Keeping up social networks

• At Home

– Better quality of life for longer

– Independence, autonomy and dignity


Where technologies can help…

• Monitoring at body level (phisiological

parameters)

• Monitoring data collection (at home or at

the hospital)

• Data processing/reasoning

• Decision support systems and automatic

warning generation


Technologies@body level

Capture of physiological & Biological

signals,

Data communication,

Monitoring,

Local and/or remote Processing


Technologies at home


Who/what I

am

Where I am

How I feel

Context awareness

• Understanding the context is a very challenging feature

for autonomous, distributed systems

• Example: identity, position, etc


• Outdoor position can be evaluated using

satellite positioning systems and cellular

networks

• GPS/Galileo

• GSM

• The accuracy is still quite limited for many

applications, so solutions based on the

combination of different technologies are

being evaluated

Location Technologies: outdoor

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Location Technologies: indoor

• other technologies can be used to calculate the position of an object indoor:

– WiFi

– RFID

– WSN /ZigBee


Architecture example: patients remote monitoring

Cell. net

internet

internet

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