Title :
Home automation based sensor system for monitoring elderly people safety
Author :
Nazabal, Juan A. ; Matias, Ignacio ; Fernandez-Valdivielso, Carlos ; Falcone, Francisco ; Branchi, Pablo ; Mukhopadhyay, S.C.
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Electron. Eng. Dept., Public Univ. of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
Abstract :
The purpose of this work is to develop a low cost home automation based sensor system for remote monitoring the behavior of elder people at their own homes. With a combination of data obtained from strategically placed sensors and a series of editable rules, an abnormal behavior can be detected and the corresponding action taken.
Keywords :
biomedical transducers; computerised monitoring; health care; home automation; medical computing; elderly people safety monitoring; home automation based sensor system; remote monitoring; Buildings; Educational institutions; Home automation; IP networks; Libraries; Protocols; Servers; Health Care; KNX; Remote Monitoring;
Conference_Titel :
Sensing Technology (ICST), 2012 Sixth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kolkata
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2246-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICSensT.2012.6461658
