RFID and sensors enabled In-home elderly care

The growing number of elderly people yields towards an increased demand of assisted living solutions that can permit the elderly persons to live safely and independently in their own homes. The paper proposes an integrated In-home elderly care solution, enabled with wireless sensor network and RFID technology. The solution provides assisted living and improved care of elder through home surveillance, item and medication usage reminder and early warning of potential dangerous situation (e.g., fire, gas leakage). The paper presents the proposed system architecture and demo implementation results realized with Sun SPOT sensor modules, diverse sensors and RFID tags.