• DocumentCode
    1734387
  • Title

    Remote tracking patients in retirement home using wireless multisensor system

  • Author

    Campo, Eric ; Bonhomme, Sylvain ; Chan, Marie ; Esteve, Daniel

  • Author_Institution
    INSA, Univ. de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    226
  • Lastpage
    230
  • Abstract
    This paper presents an experiment for monitoring the behaviour of dependent elderly people living in a retirement home in rural area. The surveillance consists to monitor the physical activities of the elderly in order to detect automatically risk situations such as fall, high agitation or any change in behaviour. Monitoring is carried out both locally via a wireless multisensor system and remotely via a satellite communication link. This approach aims to associate advanced wireless technologies with health monitoring application.
  • Keywords
    biomechanics; biomedical telemetry; patient monitoring; wireless sensor networks; elderly people; health monitoring; physical activities; remote tracking; retirement home; risk situations; satellite communication link; surveillance; wireless multisensor system; Internet; activity data; elderly; monitoring system; risks prevention; rural location; wireless communication;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    e-Health Networking Applications and Services (Healthcom), 2010 12th IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Lyon
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6374-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556567
  • Filename
    5556567