A review of activity trackers for senior citizens: research perspectives, commercial landscape and the role of the insurance industry

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dc.contributor.authorTedesco, Salvatore
dc.contributor.authorBarton, John
dc.contributor.authorO'Flynn, Brendan
dc.contributor.funderHorizon 2020en
dc.contributor.funderEuropean Commissionen
dc.contributor.funderEuropean Regional Development Funden
dc.contributor.funderScience Foundation Irelanden
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-07T14:10:55Z
dc.date.available2017-06-07T14:10:55Z
dc.date.issued2017-06-03
dc.date.updated2017-06-07T13:57:54Z
dc.description.abstractThe objective assessment of physical activity levels through wearable inertial-based motion detectors for the automatic, continuous and long-term monitoring of people in free-living environments is a well-known research area in the literature. However, their application to older adults can present particular constraints. This paper reviews the adoption of wearable devices in senior citizens by describing various researches for monitoring physical activity indicators, such as energy expenditure, posture transitions, activity classification, fall detection and prediction, gait and balance analysis, also by adopting consumer-grade fitness trackers with the associated limitations regarding acceptability. This review also describes and compares existing commercial products encompassing activity trackers tailored for older adults, thus providing a comprehensive outlook of the status of commercially available motion tracking systems. Finally, the impact of wearable devices on life and health insurance companies, with a description of the potential benefits for the industry and the wearables market, was analyzed as an example of the potential emerging market drivers for such technology in the future.en
dc.description.sponsorshipScience Foundation Ireland (SFI and co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund under Grant Number 13/RC/2077)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationTedesco, S., Barton, J. and O’Flynn, B. (2017) 'A Review of Activity Trackers for Senior Citizens: Research Perspectives, Commercial Landscape and the Role of the Insurance Industry', Sensors, 17(6), 1277 (39 pp). doi:10.3390/s17061277en
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/s17061277
dc.identifier.endpage1277-39en
dc.identifier.issn1424-8220
dc.identifier.issued6en
dc.identifier.journaltitleSensorsen
dc.identifier.startpage1277-1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/4058
dc.identifier.volume17en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherMDPIen
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020::RIA/689996/EU/Integrated Technology Ecosystem for ProACTive Patient Centred Care/ProACTen
dc.rights© 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectWearable sensorsen
dc.subjectPhysical activityen
dc.subjectHealthcareen
dc.subjectInsuranceen
dc.subjectOlder adultsen
dc.subjectActivity trackersen
dc.titleA review of activity trackers for senior citizens: research perspectives, commercial landscape and the role of the insurance industryen
dc.typeArticle (non peer-reviewed)en
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