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Most older citizens prefer to live independently for as long as possible. However, direct care providers, such as family members, often have safety concerns, especially when people start to be less independent. The aim of our project is to enhance safety and quality of life of older citizens and their main care provider. We propose to do this by monitoring the older citizen using a non-invasive manner; the data collected by the smart energy meter (e.g. energy use of the TV, lights). A message is sent to the main care provider when there seems to be something off in the daily routine of the older citizen. In the first stage of the project, together with older citizens and care providers, we determine when, how often and what kind of message is sent. In the second stage of the project, we implement the monitoring and messaging among older citizens and their care provider. After 12 months we evaluate whether the intervention contributed to the safety and quality of life they experience. The proposed application has the potential to be implemented at low-cost at a large scale, supporting longer, safer, independent living among older citizens.

Smart energy meter data used in a monitoring system to alert users when out-of-the-ordinary activity is detected, may improve health-related quality of life and perceived safety of community-dwelling older persons and their informal care providers.

Baseline, 6 month follow-up (start intervention), 12 month follow-up (end intervention)

An electronic device (Cloudia) is installed into the smart energy meter to gather energy usage data. From these data the activities of daily living are identified to determine normal daily living patterns and deviant daily living patterns. Based on this information a monitoring system is developed, notifying users when out-of-the-ordinary activity is detected. The system is implemented and evaluated.