Distributed sensor network for a home for the aged

Author

Hori, Toshio ; Nishida, Yoshifumi ; Aizawa, Hiroshi ; Murakami, Shin´ichi ; Mizoguchi, Hiroshi

Author_Institution

Digital Human Res. Center, AIST, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

10-13 Oct. 2004

Firstpage

1577

Abstract

This paper introduces an embedded distributed sensor network for a home for the aged which monitors positions of elderly people in a nursing room. The system employs about one hundred ultrasonic sensors and attaches an ultrasonic emitter to a wheel chair which an elderly person uses. The system tracks the emitter´s position continuously and notifies caregivers when the wheel chair enters one of preset regions where accidents are likely to occur. This paper describes the background of the development and system configuration with a preliminary experimental result.

Keywords

accident prevention; computerised monitoring; distributed sensors; geriatrics; patient monitoring; sensor fusion; ultrasonic transducers; accident prevention; elderly people; embedded distributed sensor network; home for the aged; position monitoring; position tracking; ultrasonic emitter; ultrasonic sensors; wheel chair; Accidents; Aging; Dementia; Electronic mail; Humans; Medical services; Senior citizens; Sensor arrays; Sensor systems; Wheelchairs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2004 IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8566-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1399856

Filename

1399856