Title :
An elderly assisted living system with wireless sensor networks
Author :
Suntiamorntut, W. ; Charoenpanyasak, S. ; Ruksachum, J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Eng., Prince of Songkla Univ., Hatyai, Thailand
Abstract :
This paper proposes the new emerging technologies for the elderly assistive system. By combining Internet, embedded systems, and wireless sensor networks, the system can offer a great potential to assist the elderly people to live safely in their homes. The low cost tiny fall detection is also proposed in this paper. The final contribution of this work is to demonstrate our wireless sensor networks technology that applied in the elderly assistive living. This leads to give the promise of improving the healthcare in the developing countries.
Keywords :
Internet; biomedical communication; embedded systems; handicapped aids; health care; wireless sensor networks; Internet; elderly assisted living system; embedded systems; healthcare; wireless sensor networks; Acceleration; Biomedical monitoring; Monitoring; Radiofrequency identification; Senior citizens; Servers; Wireless sensor networks; eldery assistive system; fall detection; location; wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC), 2011 4th Joint IFIP
Conference_Location :
Toulouse
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1192-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1191-6
DOI :
10.1109/WMNC.2011.6097215