Efficient Location Tracking System for Patient Monitoring

The constant increase of life expectancy in the last decades is constantly prompting for new and better solutions to support the overstressed medical system. Solutions for tele monitoring of elder patients in their own homes are seen as one of the key solutions in reducing the financial and human resources demand on a medical system that needs to address a constantly growing number of elder patients with fewer resources. This paper presents an efficient location tracking system design for monitoring elder patients in home environments. This system is designed to be integrated in complex context aware systems, which can provide valuable information and alerts to responsible care takers.