Integration of an Environmental Sound Module to an Existing In-Home Activity Simulator

In this paper, we present a software tool for in- home resident activity simulation, incorporating now an environmental sound module, and developed for the purpose of home health care data fusion studies. Activities, represented by displacements scenarios and modeled using a Markov model, are correlated with ambient audio events. Physiological and environmental data are also integrated in the simulation process on demand by the users. The goal of the simulator is to generate huge amounts of data in short periods of time, allowing the evaluation of preliminary custom algorithms, before the recording of long-term constraining patient health monitoring using medical intelligent systems. Direct applications of the simulator are briefly exposed in the paper showing the potentiality of the software tool.