Title :
UWB positioning system for elderly persons monitoring
Author :
Vitomir Djaja-Josko;Jerzy Kolakowski
Author_Institution :
Institute of Radioelectronics and Multimedia Technology, Warsaw University of Technology, Nowowiejska 15/19, 00-665 Warsaw, Poland
Abstract :
The NITICS1 project is focused on assistance to elderly people in their homes. Its main goal is to develop a complex system which would cover all aspects from elderly people´s safety to convenient living. This paper describes briefly NITICS system, its architecture and UWB localization subsystem. Infrastructure and developed devices are presented. Results of selected laboratory tests of UWB localization subsystem are described and analysed.
Keywords :
"Senior citizens","Monitoring","Sensors","Micromechanical devices","Computer architecture","Wireless communication","Ultra wideband technology"
Conference_Titel :
Telecommunications Forum Telfor (TELFOR), 2015 23rd
DOI :
10.1109/TELFOR.2015.7377440
