ABSTRACT
In an aging society facing the explosion of chronic and lifestyle-related diseases, it is generally accepted that e-health/telemedicine constitutes the best alternative to meet the increasing healthcare needs. This chapter focuses on an in-place network of sensors for monitoring activity at home. Data collected from both environmental and embedded sensors were merged and used to detect activities of daily living (ADLs) and pathological situations observable in neurological degenerative diseases such as perseveration and drift in nycthemeral rhythm. It develops the fusion of the built-in inertial sensors of a smartphone. A smartphone-based biofeedback system was developed for self-measurement, training, and rehabilitation. It offers a range of derived applications, among them the application iBalance for postural capacities assessment and improvement. Since its development in 1994 in Grenoble, the multimodal platform, Habitat Intelligent pour la Sante (HIS), has been dedicated to the development and evaluation of simple and noninvasive devices for promoting aging-in-place and maintenance of autonomy.
