Multi-sensor based in-home health monitoring using Complex Event Processing

Web enablement of sensor data is an important mission in providing anywhere anytime access. Particularly, it is essential in Tele-health monitoring of geriatric patient who are alone at home. For continuous monitoring, it requires the patient to wear wireless body sensors which give information about his vital parameters. Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) provides a platform for making the raw sensor data available on the web so that it becomes accessible to doctors for making clinical diagnosis. The challenges involved are effective collection of sensor data and bringing them to web using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), complexity in finding relationship between raw events, developing rules for identifying patterns that pose a threat and generating alerts to patient, caregivers and doctors, dealing storage and privacy issues in accessing data on web and developing algorithm for fast and accurate fall detection. This talk addresses those challenges by providing possible solutions.