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

fYear

2006

Firstpage

3931

Lastpage

3934

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1615321

Filename

1615321