Transcript Smart Homes & Handicap

Handicom Team
INT – INSERM U.483
Target
Integration of assistive technologies in the context of smart
environment “Smart homes” for people having severe motor
disabilities.
Goal
Development of generic tools allowing interconnection
of home networking protocols & Internet protocol (IP:
Internet Protocol) to favor integration of assistive aids
at homes of people with disabilities.
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Smart Home project:
Innovated Action financed by GET &
Louis Leprince Ringuet Foundation
Partners: ENST Bretagne, Télécom Paris and INT
Associated partners : AFM, Garches Hospital, SIADV Laval
Users needs Analysis
Software Architecture
This research activity concern
mainly
the
use
of
assistive
technological systems by people with
motor disabilities and elderly people in
daily practice situations. Some
experimentations involving visual
impaired people are also planned.
Mobility
Electric wheelchairs and adapted cars
allowing the compensation of moving
function inside or outside of buildings
Audio
Visual
Computer applications
Giving to persons with disabilities more
services which could be a helpful in their
daily life, such as Internet access and
associated applications, software access
(text processing) and also other specific
applications bind to smart homes and
robotics
Protocols
• Users with motor disabilities
• Experts in motor handicap
• Users with visual impairments
• Experts Visual handicap
• Elderly users people
• Experts in Elderly users
HMI
Supervisor
Input devices
Users
Questionnaires dedicated to:
Computer access
External
systems
Feedback
This study is based primarily on a
evaluation method through an
investigation of the users needs and
also
through
experts
recommendations, by the use of
dedicated questionnaires and scenarios
carried out within the framework of
this project
Communication
Communication systems
Designed for persons who lost
communication possibilities.
These systems allow translating
physical actions into vocal or written
synthesis
Domotics
Technologies for new services at homes
with environmental control systems
facilitate accessibility to the environment
and to the home equipments (open
window, pickup telephone, television
command…)
Configuratio
n Tool
•Person's with motor disabilities
•Investigations are carried out on
various places: Garches hospital in
Paris and AFM (French Muscular
Dystrophies Association) in Evry
• In 2002, 28 persons participated to
experimentations.
- Choice of input devices
- Configuration & adaptation of input devices according
to each user
- Easy actions distribution (output interfaces) on
different ActionMaps
- Communications Protocols with supervisor
- Easy upgrading of software modules
Input devices drivers
Features:
• Speed: 721 Mbps
• Scalability: easy to expand and to include new devices (medical
equipment, patient’s palm pilot etc).
• Flexibility: Instant network, conference anywhere.
• Security: Identification of each Bluetooth device is unique.
• Low cost of ownership: no wires, lower cost
Advantages:
• Low power consumption.
• Secure, as each Bluetooth product has a unique identification.
• Flexible in adding new devices, hence good for later additions to the
system.
• Does not require line-of-sight.
wireless
• Low cost.
Communications
Disadvantages:
Mobil
System
• Low speed for our application.
• Need to develop interface to browse from port.
• Not widely used with PC to PC communication.
Interconnection
Robot
Actions
TV
Actions
Graphic
Representation
Database
Input
devices
action
Effectors
Actions
(XML)
Joystick
events
Keypad
events
User layer
HMI
Supervisor layer
Download in the
system
Communication
layer
Configuration
Tool
Power Lines Communication protocols: X2D
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Protocol to control electrical units
Need special receptor and transmitter unit
Use of modem X2D for data transmission
The X2D modules should be configured (address attribution)
Interconnections
PC 1
Bluetooth/PLC
Ethernet
PC 2
X2D
Bluetooth/IP
Ethernet / X2D Interconnection
Internet
Central
Output Interfaces:
effectors
ICOST 2003 , September 24 –26, 2003
1st International Conference On Smart homes and health Telematics
" Independent living for persons with disabilities and elderly people "
Features:
•Speed: 115.2 kbps, diffused IrDA gives lower speed.
•Scalability: cannot scale easily to communicate with multiple hosts.
•Flexibility: instant network, conference anywhere.
•Security: line-of-sight (also diffused), cannot penetrate walls.
•Low Cost of Ownership: no wires, lower cost.
Advantages:
•Secure, does not penetrate walls.
•Can easily communicate with peripheral devices, like printers.
•Low cost and can be used to transfer information from the Tablet PC to another PC.
Disadvantages:
•Low speed.
•Line-of-sight required, diffused IrDA available, but not very popular.
•Very small range of coverage.
•Generally used for communication with peripherals and not for networking PCs
2nd Workshops “Smart Homes & Handicap” February 26, 2003
1st Workshops “Smart Homes & Handicap” January 28, 2002
www.int-evry.fr/handicom
Bessam Abdul Razak, Mounir Mokhtari, Mohamed Ali Fki
Events
Events
Robotics systems to compensate objects
manipulation
functions
(gripping
objects, drinking, eating, inserting a
tape in VCR, etc..)
Infra red communication Protocol: IrDa Protocol
Supervisor
Configuration
file
(XML)
Manipulation
Wireless communication protocols:
Bluetooth Protocol
Configuration tool
Effectors description
Mounir Mokhtari
Bessam Abdul Razak
Mohamed Ali Fki
Chantal Vallet
Abdallah M'hamed
Bernard Grandgean
Ramon Rodriguez
Mahmoud Ghorbal
Françoise Devaux