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Demo abstract: ICrutch: A smartphone-based intelligent crutch for smart home applications

  • School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

As the rapid development of smart home applications, they bring us much more convenience to operate smart lights, room heaters etc., directly. However, it is still hard for the elderly or someone with leg problems to operate the above things because the movement of them is dependent on a pair of crutches so that their hands are not always available while using crutches. Therefore, if the elderly or someone with leg problems can control the devices directly with crutches, it will become more comfortable and convenient for them to live in the smart houses. Due to such motivation, we propose iCrutch in this paper. By bidding the user's obsolescent smartphone on the currently-used crutch, iCrutch can recognize the user's actions and send controlling commands to the smart home actuators for further response. Unlike remote controllers, our iCrutch permits the user to operate without leaving his/her hands from the crutches. Meanwhile, iCrutch almost does not introduce extra cost since the obsolescent smartphone and the current crutch are made full use of. The expense of our system is noticeably reduced compared with embedding a smart system into the crutch.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE INFOCOM 2020 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2020
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1328-1329
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781728186955
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event2020 IEEE INFOCOM Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2020 - Toronto, Canada
Duration: 6 Jul 20209 Jul 2020

Publication series

NameIEEE INFOCOM 2020 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2020

Conference

Conference2020 IEEE INFOCOM Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2020
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityToronto
Period6/07/209/07/20

Keywords

  • Internet of Things
  • Smart Home
  • Smartphone

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