Intelligent monitoring of elderly people

The aim of the article is to present our proposal for an intelligent monitoring of elderly people based on: agent technology, a decision support system implemented using a description logic based system and personal digital assistants (PDAs). Agent technology allows us to customize the monitoring service and to distribute the global functionality of the system among several agents. We use the DAML+OIL description logic based system to describe an ontology that categorizes different anomalous situations. The reasoning mechanism provided by that system permits the detection of anomalous situations for many different user conditions. Finally, the use of PDAs allows us to offer an anywhere and anytime monitoring.