Energy Efficient Contextual Sensing for Elderly Care

Author

Bhatia, D. ; Estevez, L. ; Rao, S.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson

fYear

2007

fDate

22-26 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

4052

Lastpage

4055

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2007. EMBS 2007. 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Lyon

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0787-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353223

Filename

4353223