A wearable sensor based elderly home care system in a smart environment

Elderly people need 24-hours care and support for their physical disability and mental weakness. With the ever growth of the elderly people this section needs some importance. But 24-hours caring and monitoring can´t be provided by the family members and caregivers because of their daily affairs. So the question arises here how they gives supportive care to their elderly. The answer is related to the using technology. In every sphere of our life technology is used for making the life easier and comfortable. So the caregivers monitor and care their elderly people with the help of technology. These kind of technologies introduced smart environment. The smart environment informs the caregivers about the current position and status of the elderly people and their living environment. In this paper we introduced a wearable sensor based elderly home care system in a smart environment. We have used personal computers as monitoring system, sensors for sensing data, webservice to communicate between monitoring systems. From our user study we can see that our system is not only useful but also would be helpful for further research in this domain.