Hospital and Home Environments Automation for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Patients: Building Information Modeling and the Internet of Things in Digital Environments

In this work, we present a novel distributed software platform for patients with neuro-degenerative diseases that affect motorneurons. The linking point between this wide range of diseases is the strong social impact they have, degrading the freedom of action of the patient: the loss of functionality of motor neurons, caused by progressive degradation, makes the body unable to move. Thus, our solution aims at making patients more autonomous in their daily activities and at improving remote healthcare monitoring for medical staff by combining Virtual Reality, Building Information Modelling (BIM), Internet of Things (IoT) and Eye-Tracking technologies. Starting from the 3D parametric BIM model, patients can virtually explore the surrounding environment (through eye’ movements) and can control the environment by interacting with IoT smart devices, thus performing different tasks.