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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Artif. Intell.
Sec. Medicine and Public Health
Volume 8 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/frai.2025.1520592
This article is part of the Research Topic Recent Trends of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in Bio-Medical Informatics View all articles

Integrating Generative Adversarial Networks with IoT for Adaptive AI-Powered Personalized Elderly Care in Smart Homes

Provisionally accepted
  • 1 Computer Science & Software Engineering Department, Beaconhouse International College, Faisalabad, Pakistan
  • 2 Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj, 11942, Saudi Arabia
  • 3 Landscape Architecture Department, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
  • 4 Computer Software Engineering Department, Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology,, Karachi, Pakistan
  • 5 Department of Electrical Engineering, Government College University, Lahore, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
  • 6 Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan

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    The need for effective and personalized in-home solutions will continue to rise with the world population of elderly individuals expected to surpass 1.6 billion by the year 2050. The study presents a system that merges Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) with IoT-enabled adaptive artificial intelligence (AI) framework for transforming personalized elderly care within the smart home environment. The reason for the application of GANs is to generate synthetic health data, which in turn addresses the scarcity of data, especially of some rare but critical conditions, and helps enhance the predictive accuracy of the system. Continuous data collection from IoT sensors, including wearable sensors (e.g., heart rate monitors, pulse oximeters) and environmental sensors (e.g., temperature, humidity, and gas detectors), enables the system to track vital indications of health, activities, and environment for early warnings and personalized suggestions through real-time analysis. The AI adapts to the unique pattern of healthy and behavioural habits in every individual's lifestyle, hence offering personalized prompts, reminders, and sends off emergency alert notifications to the caregiver or health provider, when required. We were showing significant improvements like 30% faster detection of risk conditions in a large-scale real-world test setup, and 25% faster response times compared with other solutions. GANs applied to the synthesis of data enable more robust and accurate predictive models, ensuring privacy with the generation of realistic yet anonymized health profiles. The system merges state-of-the-art AI with GAN technology in advancing elderly care in a proactive, dignified, secure environment that allows improved quality of life and greater independence for the aging individual. The work hence provides a novel framework for the utilization of GAN in personalized healthcare and points out that this will help reshape elderly care in IoT-enabled 'smart' homes.

    Keywords: generative adversarial networks (GANs), personalized elderly care, IoT-enabled smart homes, Adaptive artificial intelligence, Predictive healthcare analytics, synthetic health data, Proactive health monitoring, healthcare AI applications

    Received: 31 Oct 2024; Accepted: 23 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Naseer, Addas, Tahir, Khan and Sattar. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Fawad Naseer, Computer Science & Software Engineering Department, Beaconhouse International College, Faisalabad, Pakistan
    Abdullah Addas, Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj, 11942, Saudi Arabia

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