AUTHOR=Palumbo Filippo , Crivello Antonino , Furfari Francesco , Girolami Michele , Mastropietro Alfonso , Manferdelli Giorgio , Röcke Christina , Guye Sabrina , Salvá Casanovas Antoni , Caon Maurizio , Carrino Francesco , Abou Khaled Omar , Mugellini Elena , Denna Enrico , Mauri Marco , Ward David , Subías-Beltrán Paula , Orte Silvia , Candea Ciprian , Candea Gabriela , Rizzo Giovanna TITLE=“Hi This Is NESTORE, Your Personal Assistant”: Design of an Integrated IoT System for a Personalized Coach for Healthy Aging JOURNAL=Frontiers in Digital Health VOLUME=2 YEAR=2020 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/digital-health/articles/10.3389/fdgth.2020.545949 DOI=10.3389/fdgth.2020.545949 ISSN=2673-253X ABSTRACT=
In the context of the fourth revolution in healthcare technologies, leveraging monitoring and personalization across different domains becomes a key factor for providing useful services to maintain and promote well-being. This is even more crucial for older people, with aging being a complex multi-dimensional and multi-factorial process which can lead to frailty. The NESTORE project was recently funded by the EU Commission with the aim of supporting healthy older people to sustain their well-being and capacity to live independently. It is based on a multi-dimensional model of the healthy aging process that covers physical activity, nutrition, cognition, and social activity. NESTORE is based on the paradigm of the human-in-the-loop cyber-physical system that, exploiting the availability of Internet of Things technologies combined with analytics in the cloud, provides a virtual coaching system to support healthy aging. This work describes the design of the NESTORE methodology and its IoT architecture. We first model the end-user under several domains, then we present the NESTORE system that, analyzing relevant key-markers, provides coaching activities and personalized feedback to the user. Finally, we describe the validation strategy to assess the effectiveness of NESTORE as a coaching platform for healthy aging.