Reengineering Home Care With SmartCare: An AAL Architecture for Elderly Wellbeing

The global trend of population aging presents urgent challenges to traditional healthcare systems, particularly in enabling older adults to live independently while maintaining quality of life. This paper presents SmartCare, a scalable and modular Ambient Assisted Living platform that integrates heterogeneous commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) IoT devices, real-time analytics, and user-friendly interfaces into a unified edge-cloud ecosystem. A real-world pilot deployment demonstrates the platform’s adaptability across diverse scenarios, including hypertensive and diabetic patients management. Evaluations include both technical validations and a usability study based on an extended Technology Acceptance Model, focusing on provisioning and configuration tasks. The results highlight the platform’s effectiveness in supporting safe, autonomous living while reducing caregiver burden and deployment complexity.