The PEIS Slippers

Sammanfattning: At the AASS laboratory located in “Teknikhuset” at ORU there are research projects that has the goal to create an intelligent home. This home should be used in care of elders and other people that are in need of care. It has already a lot of technology embedded in the different parts of the apartment, i.e. a robot arm in the fridge.  To know when these modules should be activated for use or not, the location of the user can be used. An example would be that the fridge door shouldn't open when the user accidentally tells it to when he or she is in the bathroom, but it should when he or she stands in front of the fridge. Then how to know where the person are located? This is what the idea of this thesis is, to create a location tool to be used in the care of elders. It will be embedded in the intelligent environment in the apartment and in later projects together with other systems monitor the patient. What hardware to use and how to connect them together are a major task in this thesis. And also writing the application to be able to embed the tool in the environment system. How did the result turn out, and what can future development can be done.