Intelligent Sensing Systems for Measuring Wellness Indices of the Daily Activities for the Elderly

Author

Suryadevara, N.K. ; Quazi, M.T. ; Mukhopadhyay, S.C.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng. & Adv. Technol., Massey Univ., Palmerston North, New Zealand

fYear

2012

fDate

26-29 June 2012

Firstpage

347

Lastpage

350

Abstract

In this study, we reported integration of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) based systems for monitoring elderly health perception and daily activity behaviour recognition. The amalgamation of the systems helps in deducing the elderly wellness indices, thereby informing the health care providers about the tendency of unusual behaviour through telecare system. The developed sensing system along with the intelligent software is low cost, flexible, robust and easy to install and monitor elderly living alone.

Keywords

biomedical measurement; geriatrics; health care; patient monitoring; telemedicine; wireless sensor networks; behaviour recognition; daily activities; elderly health perception; elderly wellness indices; health care providers; intelligent sensing systems; intelligent software; telecare system; wireless sensor network; Biomedical monitoring; Emotion recognition; Home appliances; Monitoring; Senior citizens; Sensors; Wireless sensor networks; Activities of daily living; Behaviour Recognition; Elder care; Wellness; Wireless Sensor Netowrk;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Environments (IE), 2012 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guanajuato

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2093-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IE.2012.49

Filename

6258549