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Fig. 2. Workflow for service “cooking monitor”
3.1.3 Fridge door service
This service monitors the door of the refrigerator. Once the elderly person opens the
refrigerator door, the system will wait for it to be closed after a certain predefined time
period. If it is not closed in the specified amount of time, an alert will be issued:
Letting a caregiver know if the door has been forgotten open for too long - by email or
SMS.
The open, close or alarm events will be posted on the portal
The following parameter can be adjusted: Time duration, since the fridge door was
opened, after which to send an alert to a caregiver that the fridge door has probably
been forgotten open (specified in minutes).
If there is an alarm situation, the system shows a blinking message on the top line of the
Carebox and is “telling” to the elderly that the fridge door has been opened for too long and
he/she needs to react. This notification is repeated periodically on the Carebox until the
event “fridge door closed” is detected by the system.
3.1.4 Bed service
Alarm is triggered if an elderly has left the bed for a long time during the night.
Furthermore, this service allows a caregiver to be notified about disturbances or significant
alterations in the patient's sleep pattern. From the service page, a caregiver can view
whether the elderly person is in the bed or not, the last time the patient sat or slept on it, and
the last time the elderly person got up from the bed.
