Title :
An Experimental Study on Home-Wireless Passive Positioning
Author :
Yan, Hairong ; Xu, Youzhi ; Gidlund, Mikael ; Nohr, Ragnar
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput., Xi´´an Technol. Univ., Xi´´an
Abstract :
In this article, we will discuss and evaluate a prototype of a wireless sensor network (WSN) elderly healthcare at primary care center and residential home. The main functions are to provide users (home assistants etc) with a degree of "understanding" of information about him, such that what he is doing, where he is, what his health activity is. One major feature in our experimental e-health prototype is positioning which can be used for determine the localization of the elderly in the apartment. For tracking and localization, we have proposed a positioning algorithm which is based on passive positioning. The obtained experimental results show that this prototype has high accuracy in localization and tracking.
Keywords :
biomedical telemetry; geriatrics; health care; position control; target tracking; wireless sensor networks; e-health prototype; elderly healthcare; home-wireless passive positioning; passive positioning; position localization; position tracking; positioning algorithm; primary care center; residential home; wireless sensor network; Biomedical monitoring; Computer networks; IP networks; ISDN; Medical services; Patient monitoring; Prototypes; Senior citizens; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; ehealth; positioning; wireless sensor network;
Conference_Titel :
Sensor Technologies and Applications, 2008. SENSORCOMM '08. Second International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cap Esterel
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3330-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3330-8
DOI :
10.1109/SENSORCOMM.2008.49
