Assistive Technology for the Elderly

Nagender Kumar Suryadevara holds a B.Tech, M.E, and Ph.D. (New Zealand). He has over 20 years of teaching and research experience.Currently he is working as an Associate Professor of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad, India. His fields of interest include Smart Sensors and sensing technology, instrumentation techniques, wireless sensors and network, Internet of Things, He has supervised over 20 postgraduate students and over 100 Bachelor students. He has examined over 20 postgraduate theses.He has published over 40 papers in different international journals and conference proceedings, written one book and eight book chapters. He was a guest/co-editor for several online Journal/Book publications. He was a member for several international conferences as either General Chairs/co-chairs or Technical Programme Chair. He has delivered 22 presentations including keynote, invited, tutorial and special lectures. He is a senior member of IEEE. Subhas Mukhopadhyay holds a B.E.E. (gold medallist), M.E.E., Ph.D. (India) and Doctor of Engineering (Japan). He has over 30+ years of teaching, industrial and research experience.Currently he is working as a Professor of Mechanical/Electronics Engineering, Macquarie University, Australia and is the Discipline Leader of the Mechatronics Engineering Degree Programme. Before joining Macquarie he worked as Professor of Sensing Technology, Massey University, New Zealand. His fields of interest include Smart Sensors and sensing technology, instrumentation techniques, wireless sensors and network, Internet of Things, numerical field calculation, electromagnetics etc. He has supervised over 40 postgraduate students and over 100 Honours students. He has examined over 50 postgraduate theses.He has published over 450 papers in different international journals and conference proceedings, written eight books and forty book chapters and edited seventeen conference proceedings. He has also edited thirty books with Springer-Verlag and twenty four journal special issues. He has organized over 20 international conferences as either General Chairs/co-chairs or Technical Programme Chair. He has delivered 340 presentations including keynote, invited, tutorial and special lectures.He is a Fellow of IEEE (USA), a Fellow of IET (UK), a Fellow of IETE (India), a Topical Editor of IEEE Sensors journal, and an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Sensors Council from 2017 to 2019. He is the Founding chair of IEEE IMS NSW chapter.

• 1. Access control for Internet of Things-enabled assistive technologies: an architecture, challenges and requirements2. An efficient ambient intelligent-assisted people searching for Internet of Things-based healthcare system3. Securing the elderly in cyberspace with fingerprints4. Wearable solution for robust fall detection5. Heart sound detection, analysis, and assistive technologies for the elderly6. Assistive sensing technology for the elderly health monitoring7. Assistive technology for garments: an all seasons’ jacket8. Edge computing for visitor identification using Eigenfaces in an assisted living environment9. Towards unsupervised multiresident tracking in ambient assisted living: methods and performance metrics10. Significance of digital microfluidic techniques in biomedical devices for healthcare11.Assistive devices for elderly mobility and rehabilitatioin: review and reflection