An Assisted Living Oriented Information System Based on a Residential Wireless Sensor Network

Author

Virone, G. ; Wood, A. ; Selavo, L. ; Cao, Q. ; Fang, L. ; Doan, T. ; He, Z. ; Stoleru, R. ; Lin, S. ; Stankovic, J.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Virginia Univ., Charlottesville, VA

fYear

2006

fDate

2-4 April 2006

Firstpage

95

Lastpage

100

Abstract

This paper deals with a new medical information system called Alarm Net designed for smart healthcare. Based on an advanced Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), it specifically targets assisted-living residents and others who may benefit from continuous and remote health monitoring. We present the advantages, objectives, and status of the system built at the Department of Computer Science at UVA. Early results of the prototype suggest a strong potential for WSNs to open new research perspectives for ad hoc deployment of multi-modal sensors and improved quality of medical care

Keywords

health care; home automation; intelligent sensors; medical information systems; patient care; patient monitoring; remote sensing; telemedicine; wireless sensor networks; Alarm Net; WSN; assisted-living residents; medical care; medical information system; multimodal sensors; remote health monitoring; residential wireless sensor network; smart healthcare; Biomedical monitoring; Computer science; Computerized monitoring; Information systems; Medical information systems; Medical services; Multimodal sensors; Prototypes; Remote monitoring; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, 2006. D2H2. 1st Transdisciplinary Conference on

Conference_Location

Arlington, VA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0058-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624806

Filename

1624806