Study of a remote monitoring system for senior drivers

ITS (Intelligent Transport System), which connects people, vehicles and roads by information and communication technologies, has been drawing much attention these days. Telematic services, in particular, have been deployed by domestic as well as foreign automobile companies in various ways. However, in most cases their services are intended to support drivers themselves. In the meantime, provision of services to the people taking care of elderly people in the family is considered to become increasingly important towards the future, in such countries as Japan where the aging society is becoming a serious problem. In this paper, we present a system by which people having an elderly person in their family can remotely monitor his health conditions when he is driving a car.