[IEE EC3 News] Lecture reminder - Monitoring Mum : Tele-caring with the Internet of Things, Open Source and Open Hardware; Apr 27th

[Richard Mitchell]

Dear Colleague,

You are being sent this reminder message because either you gave your email address at one of our previous lectures or you signed up on the web site associated with this email list:

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I have appended the details of our next lecture and hope to see you there.

Please note the lecture is in a different venue .... See instructions at the bottom of this mail.

You can download a poster from the following IET web page to display in your place of work:

http://mycommunity.theiet.org/files/13286


Best wishes,

Richard Mitchell
IET Thames Valley Specialised Section

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27th April 2017
"Monitoring Mum : Tele-caring with the Internet of Things, Open Source and Open Hardware" 
Andrew Findlay, Skills 1st
University of Reading, Van Emden Theatre RG6 6UR

People are living longer than ever before, and the pattern of retirement tends to be a period
of good health followed by a gradual decline over several years with increasing amounts of
support being needed.

Remote monitoring can give confidence to carers that the older person is still coping: moving
around the house, cooking, taking baths, and keeping warm. The challenge is to do this
without intruding too much into the life and privacy of the person being monitored, and yet to
raise an alarm when necessary.

This talk will describe an Internet-of-Things monitoring system using readily-available
components. Sensors measure light, temperature and movement, which they report via
message queues to be stored in a time-series database. The system is designed to allow
either a cloud-based logging and alerting service or a completely private infrastructure.
Hardware and software designs are openly available, giving confidence that personal data
can be properly controlled and mitigating the risk of a failed service company

This event is free of charge and open to all, with refreshments at 19.00, lecture at 19:30.

Contact: Prof Richard Mitchell
rjmitchell at theiet.org
http://www.theiet.org/ec3

Venue

The lecture is in a different venue from normal, in the Van Emden Theatre in the Edith Morley Building - which used to be called the HUMSS building -building 1 on the map at http://www.reading.ac.uk/web/files/Whiteknights-campus-map-and-keys-2017.pdf
 
The best entrance for the theatre is the one nearest to Whiteknights House  (building 27 on the map) , which is also close to the bus stop.
For people who drive, car park 2 is probably the best.
 
It may be possible to enter via the door in the U shape of the building facing the area between the Palmer Building (26) and the Library (2).