Countryside elder care system

Author

Kang, Sanzhong ; Zheng, Shuhong ; Zheng, Jun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Ningbo Univ., Ningbo, China

fYear

2011

fDate

9-11 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

186

Lastpage

189

Abstract

In this paper, an elder care system is introduced according to the present situation of the countryside. In this system, smart mobile phone and pad with LBS service enabled are used for personal and family data collection which is used for care system configuration and setup; ZigBee technology with IEEE 802.15.4 standard is used for timely communication of the care node and care centre with economic advantages. It can collect the specified physiological data of the elders and environment information of their living places, provide health advises and alert according to the specified configuration, report the situation to the family members and community management organization, start emergency processing with certain settings.

Keywords

Zigbee; biomedical communication; geriatrics; mobile handsets; IEEE 802.15.4 standard; LBS service; ZigBee technology; countryside elder care system; smart mobile phone; Biomedical monitoring; Communities; Monitoring; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; User interfaces; Zigbee; LBS; Zigbee; care center; elder care;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Communications and Control (ICECC), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ningbo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0320-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECC.2011.6066626

Filename

6066626