Integration of wearable sensors and positioning system for developing healthy living style

Author

Wu, Y.C. ; Liu, S.M. ; Chang, C.S. ; Han, C.C. ; Yu, W.C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. United Univ., Miaoli, Taiwan

fYear

2013

fDate

12-16 March 2013

Firstpage

181

Lastpage

184

Abstract

This paper proposes a health care system that could “keep the elderly at good health before the illness occurs”, including “smart phone based mobile health care for the elderly”, “indoor wireless transmission network location and data acquisition” and “wireless transmission electronic scale”. This system can provide a health care management environment for the elderly, facilitate their concern over self health management, reduce the medical resource expenditure, and improve the quality of life.

Keywords

assisted living; biomedical equipment; body sensor networks; data acquisition; data communication; indoor radio; mobile computing; radionavigation; smart phones; wearable computers; data acquisition; healthy living style; self-health management system; smart phone based mobile health care; wearable sensors; wireless transmission electronic scale; wireless transmission network; Mobile communication; Senior citizens; Smart phones; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; exercise 333; health management; ring-type pulse sensor; smart phone; walking 10 thousand steps daily;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Orange Technologies (ICOT), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tainan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5934-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOT.2013.6521187

Filename

6521187