Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1997. Computational Cybernetics and Simulation., 1997 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4053-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1997.626226
