Health care: smart assisted living solution
ThingsBoard is an IoT platform with all the tools needed to build a comprehensive healthcare monitoring and management solution with ease. ThingsBoard provides an extensive range of built-in features as well as flexible customization options.
Healthcare monitoring systems are designed to track patient health metrics in real time and immediately notify medical professionals of critical changes. ThingsBoard, as a robust IoT platform, provides all the necessary tools for collecting, processing, and visualizing data from devices that use protocols like BLE or LoRaWAN gateways, enabling seamless integration and support for flexible solutions.
Our Smart Assisted Living solution powered by ThingsBoard provides real-time monitoring and management of residents' health in assisted living facilities. Using ThingsBoard’s powerful IoT capabilities, this solution integrates connected devices, data analytics, and automated alerts to create a seamless experience for caregivers and administrators, ensuring timely responses and a higher quality of care.
Solution structure
The solution is designed to be used with BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) or LoRaWAN gateways and devices. The rooms may be equipped with a number of sensors like room temperature, humidity, indoor air quality (IAQ), leak, smoke, and open/close detectors.
The geopositioning of the resident is done via the beacon in the wristband and a set of nearby gateways. The platform deduplicates the incoming message from the beacon and enriches it with the attributes of the nearby gateways. The geopositioning algorithm is relatively simple and based on the payload's RSSI parameter. One may improve the algorithm based on the particular use case.
Smart assisted living benefits
The Smart Assisted Living solution offers a range of benefits for care providers, residents, and facility administrators, supporting safe and efficient management of assisted living facilities:
Efficient monitoring and sesponse
Enables real-time tracking of residents’ health and environmental conditions, allowing caregivers to respond promptly to emergencies.
Automated alerts and notifications
Configurable alerts ensure that caregivers and family members are notified of potential health risks, reducing the likelihood of delayed responses.
Personalized care plans
Customizable alert rules and comprehensive health profiles allow facilities to tailor care based on individual residents' needs, enhancing the quality of care.
Increased safety and comfort
Environmental monitoring maintains optimal room conditions, minimizing risks associated with temperature or noise fluctuations.
Data-driven insights
Collects historical health data for each resident, allowing for trend analysis and proactive management of chronic conditions.
Streamlined administration
A centralized dashboard and intuitive UI simplify the management of resident profiles, health alerts, and facility zones, saving time and reducing administrative burden.
Dashboard structure
The Smart Assisted Living Dashboard enables caregivers and administrators to monitor residents’ health data and environmental conditions in real-time, with intuitive interfaces and easily configurable alarm systems.
Applications of smart assisted living solution
A similar IoT-based monitoring and management solution, like Smart Assisted Living, can be adapted and applied in various fields and directions. Here are some of them:
Hospitals and healthcare facilities
Real-time monitoring of patients' conditions, tracking vital signs, managing wards and departments, and setting up alerts for timely response by medical staff to any health deterioration.
Rehabilitation
centers
Monitoring the condition of patients undergoing rehabilitation after surgery or injuries. The system can track recovery progress, transmit data to doctors, and set reminders for physical therapy.
Prisons and correctional facilities
Monitoring the health of inmates with vital sign tracking, smoke detectors, and access control systems. The system can also monitor movements and support facility security.
Sports complexes and fitness centers
Maintaining optimal conditions in gyms and locker rooms, monitoring the health of visitors (e.g., heart rate), and setting up emergency alerts if someone’s health deteriorates during workouts.
Factories and industrial sites
Ensuring employee safety by monitoring working conditions (temperature, gas emissions, noise, humidity) and controlling equipment status to respond promptly to emergency situations.
Hospitals and healthcare facilities
Real-time monitoring of patients' conditions, tracking vital signs, managing wards and departments, and setting up alerts for timely response by medical staff to any health deterioration.
Rehabilitation centers
Monitoring the condition of patients undergoing rehabilitation after surgery or injuries. The system can track recovery progress, transmit data to doctors, and set reminders for physical therapy.
Prisons and correctional facilities
Monitoring the health of inmates with vital sign tracking, smoke detectors, and access control systems. The system can also monitor movements and support facility security.
Sports complexes and fitness centers
Maintaining optimal conditions in gyms and locker rooms, monitoring the health of visitors (e.g., heart rate), and setting up emergency alerts if someone’s health deteriorates during workouts.
Factories and industrial sites
Ensuring employee safety by monitoring working conditions (temperature, gas emissions, noise, humidity) and controlling equipment status to respond promptly to emergency situations.
Summary
This Smart Assisted Living Solution on ThingsBoard provides a comprehensive approach to resident and facility management, with robust monitoring capabilities, intuitive zoning and device management, and customizable alerts for both health and environmental conditions. The solution empowers caregivers and administrators to respond quickly, keep environments safe, and provide the highest standard of care for residents.
ThingsBoard advantages
ThingsBoard supports industry-standard encryption algorithms like RSA and ECDSA to ensure the data is secure during transfer via TLS(TCP) and DTLS (UDP).
Visualize your data effortlessly with ThingsBoard’s rich, interactive dashboards. Create multi-state, real-time dashboards using built-in widgets like charts, gauges, maps, and tables—no coding required. Customize layouts or develop custom widgets for complete flexibility. WebSocket support ensures low-latency updates.
Connect devices directly to ThingsBoard using protocols like HTTP, CoAP, MQTT, LwM2M, SNMP, LoRaWAN, and NB-IoT. For local networks, ThingsBoard Gateway bridges the cloud via Modbus, BLE, BACnet, OPC-UA, and more. Advanced protocol translation and offline data buffering ensure reliable communication even in challenging conditions.
ThingsBoard supports high-availability deployments on cloud and on-premises data centers using K8S or bare-metal deployments. Platform components are horizontally scalable. ThingsBoard has production deployments supporting more then 18 000 vehicles and 500 000 devices connected.
ThingsBoard allows you to define application logic with drag-n-drop rule chain designer. The Rule Engine is a robust and scalable processing framework that leverages industry-standard message queue implementations like Apache Kafka or AWS SQS to ensure data durability and guarantee data processing. You are free to process data with the Rule engine or push it to further processing in external systems.
ThingsBoard provides UI and API to manage tenants, customers, users, devices, and assets. Single tenant may have multiple tenant administrators and millions of devices and customers. It also offers out-of-the-box support of OTA updates for your smart meters.
Connect LoRaWAN devices via integrations with standard network servers like TTN, LORIOT, ChirpStack, Actility, etc. Connect SigFox devices via integrations with the SigFox backend.
Build your own IoT mobile application with minimum coding efforts using ThingsBoard Mobile Application, an open-source project based on Flutter. Leverage a built-in set of mobile actions to take a photo, scan QR code, update location, and more directly within the dashboard.