Title :
Information Technology for Assisted Living at Home: building a wireless infrastructure for assisted living
Author :
Eklund, J. Mikael ; Hansen, Thomas Riisgaard ; Sprinkle, Jonathan ; Sastry, Shankar
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Berkeley, CA
Abstract :
A heterogeneous wireless network to support a home health system is presented. This system integrates a set of smart sensors which are designed to provide health and security to the elder citizen living at home. The system facilitates privacy by performing local computation, it supports heterogeneous devices and it provides a platform and initial architecture for exploring the use of sensors with elderly people in the Information Technology for Assisted Living and Home project. The goal of this project is to provide alerts to care givers in the event of an accident or acute illness, and enable remote monitoring by authorized and authenticated care givers
Keywords :
geriatrics; health care; intelligent sensors; patient monitoring; telemedicine; wireless sensor networks; assisted home living; elder citizen; heterogeneous wireless network; home health system; information technology; local computation; remote monitoring; smart sensors; wireless infrastructure; Biomedical monitoring; Buildings; Communication system security; Computer architecture; Home computing; Information security; Information technology; Intelligent sensors; Privacy; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8741-4
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1615321
