Indoor activity monitoring system for elderly using RFID and Fitbit Flex wristband

Author

Tan-Hsu Tan ; Gochoo, Munkhjargal ; Ke-Hao Chen ; Jean, Fu-Rong ; Yung-Fu Chen ; Fu-Jin Shih ; Chiung Fang Ho

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taipei Univ. of Technol., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2014

fDate

1-4 June 2014

Firstpage

41

Lastpage

44

Abstract

An indoor activity monitoring system for the elderly is proposed in this paper by using a Fitbit Flex wristband (FFW) and an active RFID. Two methods have been presented for identification of an activity place and a best accuracy of 98.89% has been achieved. The activity level of the elderly is evaluated via dissimilarity measurement by employing an activity density map. The presented system has the advantages of avoiding invasion of one´s privacy and monitoring the daily activity unobtrusively. Experimental results show the potential of the proposed system for practical application.

Keywords

biomedical telemetry; body sensor networks; geriatrics; patient monitoring; radiofrequency identification; FFW; Fitbit Flex wristband; active RFID; activity density map; activity place identification; daily activity monitoring; dissimilarity measurement; elderly activity level; indoor activity monitoring system; practical application; Aging; Monitoring; Radiofrequency identification; Senior citizens; Servers; Vectors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), 2014 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Valencia

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BHI.2014.6864299

Filename

6864299