DocumentCode :
555988
Title :
Multimodal platform for continuous monitoring of elderly and disabled
Author :
Kaczmarek, Mariusz ; Ruminski, Jacek ; Bujnowski, Adam
Author_Institution :
Gdansk Univ. of Technol., Gdansk, Poland
fYear :
2011
fDate :
18-21 Sept. 2011
Firstpage :
393
Lastpage :
400
Abstract :
Health monitoring at home could be an important element of care and support environment for older people. Diversity of diseases and different needs of users require universal design of a home platform. We present our work on a sensor-based multimodal platform that is trained to recognize the activities elderly person on their home. Two specific problems were investigated: configuration and functionality of central workstation as a module for data acquisition and analysis and second problem is devoted to user´s home environment monitoring.
Keywords :
computerised monitoring; diseases; handicapped aids; health care; home automation; sensors; care; central workstation; continuous monitoring; data acquisition; data analysis; disabled person; disease; elderly person; health monitoring; home environment monitoring; home platform; older people; sensor-based multimodal platform; universal design; Biomedical monitoring; Current measurement; Detectors; Monitoring; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS), 2011 Federated Conference on
Conference_Location :
Szczecin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0041-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-83-60810-35-4
Type :
conf
Filename :
6078315
Link To Document :
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