Title :
Remote tracking patients in retirement home using wireless multisensor system
Author :
Campo, Eric ; Bonhomme, Sylvain ; Chan, Marie ; Esteve, Daniel
Author_Institution :
INSA, Univ. de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Abstract :
This paper presents an experiment for monitoring the behaviour of dependent elderly people living in a retirement home in rural area. The surveillance consists to monitor the physical activities of the elderly in order to detect automatically risk situations such as fall, high agitation or any change in behaviour. Monitoring is carried out both locally via a wireless multisensor system and remotely via a satellite communication link. This approach aims to associate advanced wireless technologies with health monitoring application.
Keywords :
biomechanics; biomedical telemetry; patient monitoring; wireless sensor networks; elderly people; health monitoring; physical activities; remote tracking; retirement home; risk situations; satellite communication link; surveillance; wireless multisensor system; Internet; activity data; elderly; monitoring system; risks prevention; rural location; wireless communication;
Conference_Titel :
e-Health Networking Applications and Services (Healthcom), 2010 12th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lyon
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6374-9
DOI :
10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556567
