Cognitive processing offers opportunities to assist the elderly by processing information to identify opportunities for caregivers to offer assistance and support.

Rather than depending on sensors worn on the body (and needing to be not forgotten, recharged, etc..) or installing sensors on individual devices (e.g. sink, cabinet, refrigerator, etc..), this solution utilizes passive monitoring devices, notably video camera(s) with multi-channel microphones, to sense activity, record events, and build a model of normative behavior.

Initially we intend to monitor the kitchen and recognizes the presence of a person (not an individual) in the room. From this simple event detection we will build a normative baseline of daily activity and detect when that daily activity exhibits aberrations (e.g. no activity in kitchen after +2 std. dev. past median time).