A feasibility study of using a smartphone to monitor mobility in elderly

Author

Noury, Norbert ; Quach, Kim-Anh ; Berenguer, Marc ; Bouzi, M.-J. ; Teyssier, Henri

Author_Institution

Lab. INL INSA, Univ. of Lyon, Lyon, France

fYear

2012

fDate

10-13 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

423

Lastpage

426

Abstract

The increase of the elderly population poses today many questions to maintain elderly people in their own life independently and in autonomy. Daily activity of humans is correlated to the homeostasis and therefore the quantification of the daily activities plays an important role in the evaluation of the health and early detection of the signs of loss of autonomy. The actimetry has a great potential on the market of technologies for the maintenance to residence of the elderly. We propose to follow up actimetric data by using kinematic sensors integrated in a smartphone. The smartphone is a good candidate as this technology is already accepted in daily life.

Keywords

biomedical telemetry; radiotelemetry; smart phones; actimetric data; actimetry; elderly mobility monitoring; elderly population; homeostasis; human daily activity; kinematic sensors; smartphone; Acceleration; Accelerometers; Kinematics; Magnetic sensors; Magnetometers; Senior citizens; Actimetry; Elderly people; smartphone;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), 2012 IEEE 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2039-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-2038-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HealthCom.2012.6379452

Filename

6379452