Title :
Emergency alarm system: prototype and experience
Author :
Teng, Meng-Che ; Chen, Ju-Peng ; Lin, Tsung-Han ; Huang, Polly ; Chia-Li Huang ; Chen, Chia-Hui ; Chen, Heng-Shuen
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract :
Finding fusion in the domain of engineering and healthcare, we propose a wearable emergency alarm system that 1) monitors continuously the activity levels of the patient and 2) detects anomalies, in particular unconsciousness, in a timely fashion to alert the caregivers of the emergencies. In this summary, we share our experience building the first prototype and the preliminary results that support the feasibility of the system and give rise to a number of design choices towards better energy efficiency and emergency event detection accuracy.
Keywords :
emergency services; health care; medical computing; patient monitoring; ubiquitous computing; wearable computers; activity level monitor; anomaly detection; design choice; emergency event detection accuracy; energy efficiency; healthcare; system feasibility; wearable emergency alarm system; Alarm systems; Biomedical monitoring; Computer science; Design engineering; Diseases; Energy efficiency; Event detection; Intelligent sensors; Medical services; Prototypes;
Conference_Titel :
Enterprise networking and Computing in Healthcare Industry, 2005. HEALTHCOM 2005. Proceedings of 7th International Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8940-9
DOI :
10.1109/HEALTH.2005.1500396
