Intelligent monitoring systems: smart room for patient's suffering from somnambulism (sleepwalking)

摘要

Somnambulism is a Sleep Disorder characterized by walking or other activity while seemingly still asleep. The sleep walking activity may include simply sitting up and appearing awake while actually asleep, getting up and walking around, or complex activities such as moving furniture, going to the bathroom, dressing and undressing, and similar activities. Someone might even drive a car while actually asleep. For the simplicity and convenience of the project we have restricted our occupants environment to a single room, which we call a "smart room We consider that the user is an adult who is suffering from somnambulism. Our intention is to prevent the occupant to move out of his room as well monitor his movement after he's gone to bed, if the patient seems to move out then immediately inform the care taker about it as well as try and wake up the patient from the sleep in a modest way so that it doesn't come up as a shock to him, all this needs to be done by a smart responsive system which would be embedded in the patients room. This system is designed to work on the principles of Assistive Technology (technology used to assist caretakers).