Title :
Energy Efficient Contextual Sensing for Elderly Care
Author :
Bhatia, D. ; Estevez, L. ; Rao, S.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Abstract :
Technology assisted safe living has great potential in revolutionizing the way healthcare is provided to elderly and needy population. A wireless sensor network (WSN) based system for sensing and reporting events based on context is presented in this paper. It is demonstrated that by proper use of architectures for supporting WSNs and by exploiting very recent technological advances, it is now possible to build and deploy extremely energy efficient systems with very long and dependable battery life. The system evolves over most existing approaches by highly localizing the computations for detecting events and transmitting only positive events where care providers may need to be alerted.
Keywords :
biomedical telemetry; geriatrics; health care; patient monitoring; wireless sensor networks; WSN-based system; elderly care; energy efficient contextual sensing; event detection; health care; wireless sensor network; Batteries; Energy efficiency; Medical services; Patient monitoring; Power system modeling; Power system reliability; Remote monitoring; Routing; Senior citizens; Wireless sensor networks; Wireless sensor network; Zigbee; battery life; low power RF; remote monitoring; tele-medicine; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Conservation of Energy Resources; Female; Health Services for the Aged; Humans; Local Area Networks; Male; Monitoring, Physiologic; Telemedicine;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2007. EMBS 2007. 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Lyon
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0787-3
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353223
