Evaluation of automated health monitoring system at the “Welfare Techno House”

Author

Kawarada, Atsushi ; Takagi, Tetsuyuki ; Tsukada, Akira ; Sasaki, Kazuo ; Ishijima, Masayuki ; Tamura, Toshiyo ; Togawa, Tatsuo ; Yamakoshi, Ken-ichi

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng., Toyama Univ., Japan

Volume

4

fYear

1998

fDate

29 Oct-1 Nov 1998

Firstpage

1984

Abstract

The automated health monitoring system for daily physiological status during bathing, excretion and sleep used at a pilot house called “Welfare Techno House (WTH)” was designed. The WTH is an advanced and experimental house to evaluate systems for welfare and home health care. We tried three automated measurements of (1) electrocardiogram (ECG) in bath tub, (2) body and excreta weight in lavatory and (3) ECG in bed without utilizing body surface electrodes in a non-conscious manner at the WTH. Data acquired by the systems are routed to a master controller which is connected to PCs fitted with LAN at home. For the evaluation of automated health monitoring system, we made long continuous measurements to monitor health status in daily life of young and elderly subjects

Keywords

computerised monitoring; electrocardiography; geriatrics; health care; patient monitoring; sleep; telemedicine; weighing; ECG in bath tub; ECG in bed; LAN; Welfare Techno House; automated health monitoring system; automated measurement; bathing; body/excreta weight in lavatory; daily physiological status; elderly subjects; excretion; home health care; long continuous measurement; master controller; sleep; young subjects; Automatic control; Biomedical monitoring; Computerized monitoring; Control systems; Electrocardiography; Electrodes; Local area networks; Medical services; Personal communication networks; Sleep;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1998. Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5164-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1998.746992

Filename

746992