Location and identification system to monitor people with dementia in shelter homes

Author

Boudet, Jorge Falco ; Monlina, A.S. ; Yarza, Armando Roy

Author_Institution

Electron. & Commun. Eng. Dept., Zaragoza Univ., Spain

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

12-15 Oct 1997

Firstpage

945

Abstract

With the objective of locating and identifying people with dementia inside a building, relevant locating systems are reviewed from the interaction, in the form of energy they use, with the indoors environment. Two systems are proposed for the application: one measures the time of flight (TOF) of radiofrequency and the other measures the TOF of ultrasound. Both systems measure in transient conditions. Specific difficulties of each approach are discussed. Simulation results that are in concordance with laboratory measurements are shown

Keywords

health care; patient monitoring; radio applications; ultrasonic applications; dementia patients; identification; indoors environment; monitoring; radiofrequency; time of flight; transient conditions; ultrasound; Attenuation measurement; Clothing; Dementia; Indoor environments; Monitoring; Position measurement; Power measurement; Radio frequency; Ultrasonic imaging; Ultrasonic variables measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1997. Computational Cybernetics and Simulation., 1997 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4053-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1997.626226

Filename

626226