Design and real life deployment of a pervasive monitoring system for dementia patients

Author

Hanser, Friedrich ; Gruenerbl, Agnes ; Rodegast, Clemens ; Lukowicz, Paul

Author_Institution

Res. Div. for Pervasive Health, UMIT, Hall

fYear

2008

fDate

Jan. 30 2008-Feb. 1 2008

Firstpage

279

Lastpage

280

Abstract

We present the first phase of a project for monitoring elderly people suffering from dementia in the dasiareal lifepsila environment of an dasiaassisted livingpsila flat associated with a nursing home. Based on monitoring requirements derived in discussions with the nursing staff the system consists of a UBISENSE location system for monitoring location, a sound-system for monitoring vocal interaction, and the TECO dasiaParticlespsila sensor nodes mounted under the beds for sleep monitoring. In this paper we introduce the background and environment of the project, describe the requirements and the system and present some initial data collected in the first deployment period.

Keywords

diseases; handicapped aids; medical computing; patient monitoring; sleep; ubiquitous computing; TECO particles sensor node; UBISENSE location system; assisted living; dementia patient; elderly people; location monitoring; nursing home; patient monitoring; pervasive monitoring system; sleep monitoring; sound system; vocal interaction monitoring; Biomedical monitoring; Dementia; Embedded system; Medical services; Patient monitoring; Psychology; Senior citizens; Sensor arrays; Sensor systems; Sleep;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2008. PervasiveHealth 2008. Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tampere

Print_ISBN

978-963-9799-15-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2008.4571090

Filename

4571090