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# Title Team Members TA Documents Sponsor
35 Privacy-protected Elderly monitoring system: Wi-Fi and wearable sensors
Jincheng Zhou
Junyue Jiang
Pu Lin
Zizhao Cao
other1.pptx
other2.pdf
proposal2.pdf
proposal1.pdf
Huan Hu
# Problem
Due to their busy work schedules, many families are faced with the inevitable situation of leaving the elderly alone at home. This makes it a challenge to respond to emergencies of elderly falls at home and to monitor the health of the elderly. There is a need for a way to remotely know the activities and health status of the elderly at home.

# Solution Overview
Our solution for above problem is that use Wi-Fi devices that could send Wi-Fi signals for motion detection while ensuring data privacy and make wearable devices with multiple sensors attached to assist Wi-Fi monitoring. We will build an integrated monitoring system combining Wi-Fi monitoring devices and wearable sensors used for emergency happening in old people’s home.

# Solution Components

## Detection Subsystem
- Wi-Fi devices sending Wi-Fi signal providing most data
- Wearable devices with sensors providing data for assistence

## Processing and Output Subsystem
- Algorithm that identify present situation
- User Interface that send alarm to remote device.

# Criterion for Success
- Common Wi-Fi devices that can be used to obtain the desired Wi-Fi signal
- Wearable devices that are convenient and less likely to leak private information
- Algorithms that quickly and accurately determine the current situation
- Simple and easy-to-use user interfaces and alerts.

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