Method of monitoring well-being of semi-independent persons and system thereof

A method for monitoring elders in a residential setting, the method comprising providing a client system, including:

• providing communication apparatus operative for sending real time localization data and elder body motion data toward at least one server configured for performing at least one elder-supporting backend service responsive to at least one of said real time localization data and elder body motion data;
• and
• providing at least one real-time location subsystem including:
• at least one wearable (“tag”) including at least one ultra-wide-band (UWB) communication transceiver and an accelerometer sensing at least one body motion of an elder wearing the tag thereby to provide said elder body motion data;
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• at least one anchor device for deployment in an elder's domicile including an ultra-wide-band (UWB) communication transceiver operative for real time sub-meter localization of said tag, thereby to provide said real time localization data,
• wherein said backend service comprises extraction of activities of daily living (adls) including at least one operation which employs machine learning based data analytics and wherein an individual behavioral model is learned per elder.

A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory tangible computer readable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein, said computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method for monitoring elders, said method comprising:

• employing communication apparatus operative for sending real time localization data and elder body motion data toward at least one server configured for performing at least one elder-supporting backend service responsive to at least one of said real time localization data and elder body motion data;
• and
• employing at least one real-time location subsystem including:
• at least one wearable (“tag”) including at least one ultra-wide-band (UWB) communication transceiver and an accelerometer sensing at least one body motion of an elder wearing the tag thereby to provide said elder body motion data;
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• at least one anchor device for deployment in an elder's domicile including an ultra-wide-band (UWB) communication transceiver operative for real time sub-meter localization of said tag, thereby to provide said real time localization data,
• wherein upon deducing at least one distress situation, the server notifies the elder of deduction of the distress situation and wherein, following the elder manipulating an input device which is incorporated into said at least one wearable and which is operative to signal the server if manipulated by the elder, the server, responsive to the input device's having signaled the server, cancels the distress situation, thereby to reduce false alarms without requiring a human operator to contact the elder.