Tele-care system for man and machine in isolated island

Author

Miura, K. ; Yamaguchi, Y. ; Nakashima, H. ; Endoh, K. ; Takakura, T. ; Nakamura, Y. ; Moromugi, S. ; Ishimatsu, T. ; Tanaka, M.

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Sci. & Technol., Nagasaki Univ., Nagasaki, Japan

fYear

2010

fDate

18-21 Aug. 2010

Firstpage

2982

Lastpage

2985

Abstract

Elderly people living in isolated islands and remote area have difficulties to have sufficient nursing care services due to the lack of human and physical resources. Tele-care system is expected to overcome these problems. We proposed two kinds of tele-care systems for an isolated Goto island in Nagasaki prefecture. One is a community size watching system and the other is a private size watching system. A distinguished advantage of these systems is that the watching target is sensing and communication devices as well as elderly persons. To achieve efficient watching of elderly, various kinds of monitoring devices such as bed sensor, toilet sensor and image sensor were developed. The applicability of these tele-care systems were tested in Goto Island.

Keywords

handicapped aids; patient care; remote sensing; sensors; telemedicine; Goto island; Nagasaki; communication devices; community size watching system; elderly people; isolated island; monitoring devices; nursing care services; private size watching system; remote area; sensing devices; tele-care system; Calendars; Communities; Computers; Internet; Monitoring; Senior citizens; Sensors; Elderly person; ICT; Remote area; Tele-care system; Watching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SICE Annual Conference 2010, Proceedings of

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7642-8

Type

conf

Filename

5602819