CSM4HomeSafety

The CSM4HomeSafety project — Care State Machine for Home Safety — developed an intelligent system for the monitoring and domestic safety of older and frail individuals living alone.

By focusing on the specific risk condition represented by heatwaves, the system uses the Care State Machine paradigm to represent operating conditions as states — normal, attention and alarm — and transitions triggered by changes in environmental or physiological parameters.

The platform integrates multi-source data from environmental sensors, such as temperature, humidity and air quality, wearable devices for vital-sign monitoring, and digital surveys for personalised user profiling.

Thanks to adaptive automation algorithms, the system promptly identifies deviations from normal patterns and activates graduated intervention protocols, sending notifications to users and caregivers to suggest corrective actions and mitigate heat-related risks.

Its modular and scalable architecture ensures transferability to other monitoring scenarios, such as cold exposure or isolation, promoting a proactive and sustainable home care model.

Start date - 2021

End date - 2022

TRL -  6 Tested in laboratory settings on simulated cases and on non-pathological volunteer subjects