Devices and technologies
Version 2.1 by Despoina Petsani on 2021/11/02 14:19
The following table presents the available technologies for data collection from VITALISE consortium Living Labs. The database will be continuously updated aiming to include the most commonly used technologies but also custom-made solutions from each Living Lab
| Categories | Data collection technology name | Description | To measure |
| Activity | Balance measure | Ainone Balance® Software is intended for use by health, social and sports professionals to support the assessment of balance and to detect changes in human performance (Class I medical device – MDD 93/42/EEC) | Human balance |
| Activity | Activity monitoring | Smart wristband watch | Accelerometer, barometer, gyroscope, heart rate sensor, light sensor |
| Activity | Activity sensor | The ultimate wearable sensor for measuring movement and heart rate in sports and other activities | Movement measurement (9-axis IMU) Heart rate (bpm), R-R intervals, single channel ECG (non-medical), Bluetooth heart rate profile Temperature |
| Activity | Activity Trackers and wearables | Various wearables to track activity and physiological parameters (Movement, EDA, HR) and analysis to extract activities, postures, stress | Posture, Movement, Activity Level and Stress Level |
| Activity | Advanced Daily Activity Monitoring Solution | A set of home sensors that can track the presence of a person in different places inside a house, or when the person has left the house. The presence of the person and its movement between rooms in a house. With some feature engineering there are a lot of low and high level features that can be extracted (e.g. sleep duration/pattern/quality, bath visits/duration, guests and socialization, home wondering, walk speed, trend of transition speed, IADLs, Frailty, Depression, IADL decline, Behavioural anomaly) | Home sensor monitoring |
| Activity | ehcobutler - Book of Life | A modular open environment platform to promote health, satisfaction and personal well-being of elder people with mild cognitive impairments. The platform includes leisure and care activities, such as Book of Life, My Memories, Walking in Relaxing Nature, Cognitive training through GRADIOR, Videoconference, e-mail, Internet, Lifestyle recommendations, Nutritional recommendations... | Well-being, cognitive training |
| Activity | G-Walk | G-WALK is a small inertial sensor that is used for the study of dysfunctional human movement. It relays 12 spatio-temporal parameters of gait and three planes of pelvic movement to a PC via Bluetooth connection. | Gait, performance |
| Activity | Inverse kinematics data | A jacket equipped with 6 Adafruit's 9-DOF sensors (3 for each hand), that solves the inverse kinematic problem of 2, 7-DOF hands. | Inverse kinematics data |
| Activity | motion capture | A sensor suit which enables the collection of precise position and angles of the different body parts. Used to monitor activities, and contrast with other, not so intrusive, technologies | Body Posisiton |
| Activity | Orientation analysis | BNO055 is a smart 9-DOF sensor that collects data from an accelerometer, a magnetometer and a gyroscope and does sensor fusion in order to produce the absolute orientation of the chip. | Orientation |
| Activity | Polar team pro | Polar Team Pro combines high-precision GPS-derived movement data, inertial sensor metrics and integrated heart rate monitoring, into a mobile and easy-to-use, wearable player tracking system | Physical activity, physical performance |
| Activity | Smart Watches | Garmin Vivosmart 4 is a fitness and health monitoring tool which include estimated wrist-based heart rate, all-day stress tracking, relaxation breathing timer, VO2 max, Body Battery energy monitor | heart rate, VO2 max, stress tracking, Body Battery |
| Activity | Smart Watches | The Wavelet Wristband measures physiological and activity data. The wristband tracks steps, sleep, calories burned, heart rate and blood oxygen saturation. This is a cloud-based, clinical monitoring device is designed for large-scale patient data collection and analysis. | steps, sleep, calories burned, heart rate, blood oxygen |
| Activity | Wearables | The E4 is a medical-grade wearable device that offers real-time physiological data acquisition, enabling researchers to conduct in-depth analysis and visualization. | physiological and behavioural biomarkers |
| Environment/context | Air quality sensor | Air quality sensor with WiFi connectivity | Concentration levels PM1, PM2.5 and PM10 |
| Environment/context | Air quality sensor | Air quality sensor with WiFi connectivity | Concentration levels PM2.5 Pressure, Temperature, & Humidity Sensor |
| Environment/context | Blinds actuator | Blinds are 100% domotic, every time they are actioned can be monitored | Blind operation |
| Environment/context | Cama-up (behavior patterns, alarms ...) | Device to assist people with reduced mobility in the actions of getting into and out of bed, with monitoring of usage habits and alarm system. | usage habits, alarm system |
| Environment/context | CAPTAIN - virtual coach for home assistance | Technology developed in the Living Lab for coaching of older adults | |
| Environment/context | Doors and windows sensors and actuator | magnetic sensor on each window and door, so they can be monitored independently of manual or automatic operation | Door operation window operation |
| Environment/context | ehcobutler - Book of Life platform for older people | A modular open environment platform to promote health, satisfaction and personal well-being of elder people with mild cognitive impairments. The platform includes leisure and care activities, such as Book of Life, My Memories, Walking in Relaxing Nature, Cognitive training through GRADIOR, Videoconference, e-mail, Internet, Lifestyle recommendations, Nutritional recommendations... | Well-being, cognitive training |
| Environment/context | Flood sensors | a resistive moisture sensor connected to a generic KNX transceiver | Technical alerts (Flood) |
| Environment/context | Light level sensor | a KNX connected luminosity sensor for monitoring indoor conditions | Luminosity |
| Environment/context | Presence Sensor | a KNX connected Passive Infra-Red sensor for monitoring indoor movements | Presence |
| Environment/context | Sensewear Armband | Energy expenditure measure | Physical activity |
| Environment/context | Sleep sensors | Various wearable of mattress sensors to assess sleep quality | Sleep Quality |
| Environment/context | Smart Home Sensors for Activity Recognition | Smart home sensors (Presence, Appliance/Object use etc.) and analysis to recognize activities in time and in turn user behaviors/function/cognitive decline | Activities of Daily Living |
| Environment/context | Smoke sensors and Fire sensors | Detect smoke and high temperature, above the stove | Technical alerts (smoke, temperature) |
| Environment/context | Temperature sensor | a KNX connected temperature sensor for indoor temperature monitoring | Temperature |
| Virtual reality/interactive technology | VR headset | Virtual reality is a fascinating way which let you look around a virtual space as if you're actually there or play a game as though you're really in it. | Virtual reality |
| Virtual reality/interactive technology | Interactive screens | big touch screens capable of showing and interacting with web pages (e.g., questionnaire response) | Web Interaction |
| Virtual reality/interactive technology | Emocube3 | An interaction prototype used by the user to select a face (representing emotion, or any other metric), as well as gestures | Alternative and augmentative Interaction |
| Virtual reality/interactive technology | Neurologic | Intervention system to address the decline of executive function through the combination of Virtual Reality and Neurofeedback technologies and Third-Generation Therapies (Mindfulness). The system allows the real-time integration of data from EEG technology in order to identify higher cognitive functions and emotional states that allow adjustments in the activity during the performance. Virtual Reality technologies facilitate that the stimulus, activities or strategies learned have a direct transfer to everyday life environments. | Adjust treatments and therapy. Real-time feedback for patients. Offer structured data to evaluate the cognitive evolution of patients as of their performance in the training sessions. |
| Virtual reality/interactive technology | AI Emotional Analysis | Digital components for the speech analysis and speech generation to provide intuitive user interface | Speech analysis and intuitive user interface |
| Cognitive function | Gradior suite | GRADIOR Suite is a neuropsychological intervention suite for a comprehensive approach to the therapy. This comprehensive approach intends to contribute to maintain the cognitive function, control of behavioural symptomatology, improve well-being, quality of life and independence of people with cognitive impairment or deficit. GRADIOR Suite allows to address the cognitive dimension of people through the use of 'GRADIOR Cognitive Stimulation', a support tool oriented to cognitive training and stimulation. GRADIOR Suite also allows to address the sensorial and emotional dimension of people with 'GRADIOR Multisensorial', another support tool, based on Virtual Reality, to work the different senses inducing states of relaxation and sensorial stimulation and, at the same time, working on the behavioural symptomatology. | Adjust treatments and therapy. Offer structured data to evaluate the cognitive evolution of patients as of their performance in the training sessions. |
| Assisting technology | ANDIN (voice commands, gait patterns) | Smart walker that assists people with mobility difficulties, enhances their autonomy, safety and increases their well-being. helps the person to walk safely, assists their steps, adapts to their speed, detects obstacles, makes emergency calls | usage habits, alarm system, voice commands, walking speed, distance with the user, location |
| Assisting technology | INOTEC (bathroom shedding patterns) | Smart toilet aimed at people with mobility problems, to enhance their autonomy in a safe way and their well-being. assists the person in getting into and out of the toilet. User cleaning. toilet cleaning. | water temperature, drying temperature, usage habit. |
| Assisting technology | Robots – Human-Robot interaction | Humanoid robotic head for verbal human-robot interaction | Natural Language Understanding Intent and entity identification Gesture detection (smile) Engaged users Video stream |
| Assisting technology | Robots – Human-Robot interaction | Social humanoid robot | Speech recognition Human recognition |
| Assisting technology | Robots – Human-Robot interaction | Social humanoid robot | Speech recognition Human recognition: Engagement state Age Gender Mood Excitement Smile state Attention Intention Pictures Map |
| Assisting technology | Pepper social robot | The social robot, named Pepper, will serve as a mean to screen, monitor and interact with older adults with cognitive impairment (e.g., MCI, mild dementia) in care facilities. The interaction with Pepper will accompany patients and motivate them to perform activities in order to stimulate cognitive and neuropsychological domains. Also, Pepper will provide a mean to big data collection in order to assist the healthcare professional to improve the efficacy of the implemented intervention. | Capture Cognitive activities performance; capture progress of in different indicators for wellbeing and personalized recommendations; Big data collection. |
| Biometrics | Biometrics measurement | The Hellenic Educational Self-Care and Support Heart Failure app. An app designed to help patients with heart failure self-report and monitor their status. It integrates blood pressure, Weight, dyspnoea, blood glucose, swellings, bpm, SpO2 Patient's mood and reaction to certain assistive tips | Basic biometrics |
| Physiological monitoring | blood sugar level | iHealth Gluco is a medical device that designed for diabetic patients, measures blood sugar levels | blood sugar level |
| Physiological monitoring | Cosmed K5 metabolic system for both laboratory and field testing | COSMED K5, the 4th generation of the most popular wearable metabolic system, a breakthrough in the field of exercise physiology and human performance assessment. The extensive list of new and unique characteristics of the K5 expands the scope of metabolic testing from clinical exercise testing to performance assessment. | Energy expenditure, physical activity etc. |
| Physiological monitoring | Dynamometer | The Digital Hand Dynamometer is a stand-alone device developed to be used just like a traditional hydraulic hand dynamometer. Highly accurate grip strength measurement from 0-200 pounds (lbs.) or from 0-90 kilograms (kg) are digitally displayed on the LCD, and up 20 test results for each hand can be stored in memory during testing. | dynamometer, digital hand dynamometer |
| Biosignals | Electroencephalography (EEG) | Electroencephalography (EEG) is an electrophysiological monitoring method to record electrical activity on the human scalp that has been shown to represent the macroscopic activity of the surface layer of the brain underneath. It is typically non-invasive, with the electrodes placed along the scalp.EEG measures voltage fluctuations resulting from ionic current within the neurons of the brain. EEG refers to the recording of the brain's spontaneous electrical activity over a period of time, as recorded from multiple electrodes placed on the scalp. | electrophysiological timeseries |
| Biosignals | EEG (electroencephalogram), orientation | The EMOTIV EPOC+ is a portable, high resolution, 14-channel, EEG system. It was designed to be quick and easy to fit and take measurements in practical research applications | EEG, orientation |
| Biosignals | Electronic Medical Recording of Acute Ischemic Episodes | Iliaktis is a digital registry that provides specialized forms for the data gathering of patients with ischemic episodes. It can collect data that refer to the episode itself and also the follow ups of the patient for up to a year in recovery. It gathers data regarding heart disease, Ischemic episode data, CA Report, Discharge data, Follow-up data for 1 month/6months/12months after the episode. | Patient history & demographics |
| Physiological monitoring | Pulse Oximeter | Pulse oximeter is a device that is placed on a fingertip. It uses light beams to estimate the oxygen saturation of the blood and the pulse rate. | pulse oxygen and pulse rate |
| Physiological monitoring | Scale | iHealth scale bluetooth can be used to calculate the weight, BMI. iHealth’s scales can assist those who are overweight in their battle against obesity. | Weight, BMI |