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Recent technologies applied or explicitly developed for assisting people with physical disabilities or weaker individuals needing particular attention, are becoming an emerging research topic. In this paper we focus on ambient care systems and we present an overall architecture that aims to provide multiple interfaces between a smart house and its guests. In particular we describe the results applied in the project Casa + , a smart house that is addressed to people with Down syndrome; it offers functionalities for monitoring the environment and its guests, giving indication signals, audio messages or even alarms in case of incorrect actions. Through exploitation of the most recent technologies, keeping in mind the trade off with costs, we developed the following functionalities: security, time management, assistance for daily activities, monitoring and remote control, outdoor tracking.
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This work is partially supported by Vodafone Foundation. We would like to remark the irreplaceable help and sustain we gathered by educators and responsible persons of AIPD (Italian Association for People affected by the Down syndrome) of L’Aquila that represented the fundamental interface to understand the need of people affected by the Down syndrome, to guide the technological choices and to adapt to continuously arising needs.
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Alesii, R., Graziosi, F., Marchesani, S., Rinaldi, C., Santic, M., Tarquini, F. (2015). Advanced Solutions to Support Daily Life of People Affected by the Down Syndrome. In: Andò, B., Siciliano, P., Marletta, V., Monteriù, A. (eds) Ambient Assisted Living. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18374-9_22
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