A help for assisting people based on a depth cameras system dedicated to elderly and dependent people

Asma Ben Hadj Mohamed (1) , Thierry Val (2, 3) , Laurent Andrieux (2) , Abdennaceur Kachouri (1)

1 ENIS - École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Sfax | National School of Engineers of Sfax
2 IRIT-RMESS - Réseaux, Mobiles, Embarqués, Sans fil, Satellites
3 UT2J - Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès

In this paper, we propose a help to a comfort system development based on Kinect sensor to assist people commanding their own house by using only their gestures. The system uses a multi-sensors to detect the person, recognize her gestures and communicate through an IP/KNX gateway to act on actuators related to the home. Thus, a simple gesture is able to turn on/off the lights, to switch on/off the TV, to move up or down the shutters etc. We performed a test bed within the smart home of our University Institute of Technology in Blagnac.

Mots clés: Kinect; Gesture recognition; Elderly control; Sensor network; Smart home; Home automation

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]; Système d'exploitation [cs.OS]; Architectures Matérielles [cs.AR]; Systèmes embarqués

Asma Ben Hadj Mohamed, Thierry Val, Laurent Andrieux, Abdennaceur Kachouri. A help for assisting people based on a depth cameras system dedicated to elderly and dependent people. Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Imaging, 2015, vol. 1 (n° 6), pp. 56-66. ⟨10.14738/jbemi.16.782⟩. ⟨hal-01153716⟩