Poster Abstract: Light-Weight Real-Time Senior Safety Monitoring using Digital Twins

Abstract

The unprecedented increase in the aging population has brought more and more concerns and challenges to meet the compelling need for seniors’ safety protection as they may be at risk of falling, injuries, and medical emergencies. The raising digital healthcare services (DHS) leveraging the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) are promising to enable solutions. The combination of IoMT and Digital Twins (DT) technologies creates a virtual replica of a physical DHS system. Inspired by many attractive features of DTs, we propose to support real-time senior safety monitoring services utilizing the seniors’ activity and environment data collected by pervasively deployed IoMT sensors and the logical twins created in the virtual space. This poster reports our ongoing effort, introducing the proposed system architecture and some preliminary results that validated the feasibility to serve the design goal for real-time monitoring, instant anomaly detection, and timely alerting.