• DocumentCode
    555988
  • Title

    Multimodal platform for continuous monitoring of elderly and disabled

  • Author

    Kaczmarek, Mariusz ; Ruminski, Jacek ; Bujnowski, Adam

  • Author_Institution
    Gdansk Univ. of Technol., Gdansk, Poland
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    18-21 Sept. 2011
  • Firstpage
    393
  • Lastpage
    400
  • Abstract
    Health monitoring at home could be an important element of care and support environment for older people. Diversity of diseases and different needs of users require universal design of a home platform. We present our work on a sensor-based multimodal platform that is trained to recognize the activities elderly person on their home. Two specific problems were investigated: configuration and functionality of central workstation as a module for data acquisition and analysis and second problem is devoted to user´s home environment monitoring.
  • Keywords
    computerised monitoring; diseases; handicapped aids; health care; home automation; sensors; care; central workstation; continuous monitoring; data acquisition; data analysis; disabled person; disease; elderly person; health monitoring; home environment monitoring; home platform; older people; sensor-based multimodal platform; universal design; Biomedical monitoring; Current measurement; Detectors; Monitoring; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS), 2011 Federated Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Szczecin
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0041-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-83-60810-35-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6078315