Indoor Broadcasting System for Personalized TV Emissions Addressed to Teleassisted Persons

The category of peoples that need tele-assistance includes persons with special needs (i.e. elderly, chronics, etc.) whose life style should be monitored and guided according to personalized plans. In this paper we propose a system for remote control of the TV-sets in a residence so that they become able to receive and display some thematic programs running on an embedded PC, which is generally placed into other room. The system includes two parts: one is dedicated to control remotely the TV-set and other is to transmit the film from PC to TV. A key issue to solve was to assure the remote control of the TV-set by PC without user action involving and also avoiding any modification inside the existent equipments. The proposed solution is based on a special designed relay-translator which manages a radio receiver module and an IR transceiver.