Smart buildings for people with disabilities

The care interface project arises from the need of the Minerva cooperative to automate its services and at the same time measure their efficiency. In fact, the social cooperatives due to the pandemic are going through a period of change made by digitalization and remote assistance. The objective set by the main administrative bodies is to provide a private teleassistance service that can reduce costs and be provided on a larger scale. To these needs are added those deriving from the green economy, and the Minerva cooperative wants to be a promoter of this change by designing the new building in a LEED. In practice, the cooperative has purchased a nineteenth-century building and intends to renovate1 it, respecting its historical value, to welcome and provide assistance to people with disabilities. In order to give greater autonomy and comfort to these people, the cooperative launched the Care-Interface project with the aim of combining home automation and artificial intelligence for flexible automation capable of adapting to the needs of patients and staff. In order to give greater autonomy and comfort to these people, the cooperative launched the Care-Interface project with the aim of combining home automation and artificial intelligence for flexible automation capable of adapting to the needs of patients and staff. The work described in this thesis concerns the preliminary stages: the search for funding and the necessary professional figures; the development of the technology to be programmed in the last phase together with the neural network for emotion recognition which will not be the only neural network to be used but will be an example for the others; the design and programming of the home automation system that includes the basic functions required by the cooperative.