{"id":3339,"date":"2019-04-12T09:05:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T09:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2019-04-12T09:05:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T09:05:33","slug":"using-ibeacon-to-assess-elderly-frailty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/using-ibeacon-to-assess-elderly-frailty\/","title":{"rendered":"Using iBeacon to Assess Elderly Frailty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s a research paper by Thomas Tegou, Ilias Kalamaras, Markos Tsipouras, Nikolaos Giannakeas, Kostantinos Votis and Dimitrios Tzovaras of Information Technologies Institute, Greece on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"A Low-Cost Indoor Activity Monitoring System for Detecting Frailty in Older Adults (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/1424-8220\/19\/3\/452\/htm\" target=\"_blank\">A Low-Cost Indoor Activity Monitoring System for Detecting Frailty in Older Adults<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The paper describes a room-level accuracy indoor localization system, based on Bluetooth RSSI, to assess the frailty in older people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"661\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ibeaconsdetectingfrailty.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ibeaconsdetectingfrailty.png 661w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ibeaconsdetectingfrailty-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The implementation used smartphones as detectors:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ibeaconfrailtyarchitecture.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ibeaconfrailtyarchitecture.png 695w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ibeaconfrailtyarchitecture-300x292.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The researchers identified features to classify degrees of movement between rooms:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"947\" height=\"325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/frailtyfeatures.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/frailtyfeatures.png 947w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/frailtyfeatures-300x103.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/frailtyfeatures-768x264.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The system was able to determine rooms to an accuracy above 93%. The results showed subjects with frailty had distinctive movement patterns that could be identified with high accuracy of 98%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/BeaconsForTheInternetOfThings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Beacon Proximity and Sensing for the Internet of Things (IoT) (opens in a new tab)\">Beacon Proximity and Sensing for the Internet of Things (IoT)<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a research paper by Thomas Tegou, Ilias Kalamaras, Markos Tsipouras, Nikolaos Giannakeas, Kostantinos Votis and Dimitrios Tzovaras of Information Technologies Institute, Greece on A Low-Cost Indoor Activity Monitoring System for Detecting Frailty in Older Adults. The paper describes a room-level accuracy indoor localization system, based on Bluetooth RSSI, to assess the frailty in older &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/using-ibeacon-to-assess-elderly-frailty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using iBeacon to Assess Elderly Frailty&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,229,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3339"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3347,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions\/3347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}