Wirelessly accessible sensor populations (WASP) for elderly care monitoring

Author

Atallah, Louis ; Lo, Benny ; Yang, Guang-Zhong ; Siegemund, Frank

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput., Imperial Coll. London, London

fYear

2008

fDate

Jan. 30 2008-Feb. 1 2008

Firstpage

2

Lastpage

7

Abstract

This paper presents an application of a service-based architecture to pervasive monitoring of the elderly using ambient and wearable sensors. The design consideration of the model addresses heterogeneous computing and network resource utilization, allowing inter-operability and supporting dynamic environments to achieve system wide resource optimization. An application of this architecture is presented for assessing the activities of daily living, which is the basis for pervasive sensing for elderly care.

Keywords

geriatrics; health care; patient monitoring; ubiquitous computing; wireless sensor networks; elderly care monitoring; heterogeneous computing; resource utilization; service-based architecture; wearable sensors; wirelessly accessible sensor populations; Biosensors; Cardiac disease; Cardiovascular diseases; Degenerative diseases; Educational institutions; Intelligent sensors; Monitoring; Senior citizens; Wearable sensors; Wireless sensor networks; Sensor networks; activity; elderly care; services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2008. PervasiveHealth 2008. Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tampere

Print_ISBN

978-963-9799-15-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2008.4571011

Filename

4571011