Duration: 2017 – 2019
Principal Researcher
José Paulo Lousado
Team Members
Álvaro Manuel Bonito
Ana Teresa Guia
Anabela Fernandes Guedes
Armando Jorge da Cruz
Didiana Margarida Fernandes
Fernando Miguel dos Santos
Helena Margarida Teixeira
Isabel Cristina Vieira
Isabel Maria de Oliveira
José Filipe de Figueiredo Lopes
Miguel Ângelo da Mota
Paula Alexandra dos Santos
Ricardo Luís da Costa Gama
Sandra Maria Antunes
Susana Maria da Fonseca
Institutional and Enterprise Partners
AGIR Lamego- Associação de Gerações, Inovação e Requalificação de Lamego; Giros & Rotas; Smile Virtual
Funding
Programa Operacional Norte 2020; FEDER – Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional; Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Research line:
ICT and Multimedia in Education
The project "Sistema de monitorização e controlo de percursos, de aplicação turístico-social" will be implemented in the Southern Douro region, encompassing both the tourism sector and social organizations.
The region where the city of Lamego is located, the Southern Douro region, is characterized, on one hand, by the increase in the aging population, and on the other hand, by a significant influx of senior tourism throughout the year, resulting in two scenarios for the applicability of this project.
At the level of social organizations, the aim is to address the issue of monitoring, location, and control of the elderly, preventing their disappearance and monitoring their vital signs through an innovative solution without compromising their privacy.
At the business level, in the tourism sector, we aim for the developed system/final product to enable tour operators to monitor the real-time movement of their clients, analyzing situations of risk and issuing alerts in case of a significant deviation from the pre-defined route.
With this proposal for an applied research project, the intention is to analyze, design, and implement a non-intrusive control and monitoring system for individuals in the fields of pervasive and ubiquitous computing, with applications in both the tourism sector and the social domain, specifically:
a) Movement within the outdoor spaces confined to IPSS;
b) Control of movements within IPSS, with analysis of vital signs;
c) Route analysis with deviation alerts;
d) Integration with information systems via web services for real-time recording and analysis of monitored individuals' movements;
e) Integration of network and telecommunication services, namely GPS, GPRS, wireless networks, with decision support and recommendation systems, and artificial intelligence systems;