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

fYear

2005

fDate

23-25 June 2005

Firstpage

73

Lastpage

76

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Enterprise networking and Computing in Healthcare Industry, 2005. HEALTHCOM 2005. Proceedings of 7th International Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8940-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HEALTH.2005.1500396

Filename

1500396