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Japan is facing two problems of aging population and declining birth rate, which lead to a scenario that the elderly are at home alone and no one takes care of them most of time. Therefore, there is need of developing the elderly care supporting systems. This paper presents a system for supporting the elderly at home in medicine management, medicine taking monitoring, and medicine taking assistance...
Due to home accidents occurring within the world's aging population, especially with the accidental stumble and falling of the elderly, mortality and morbidity from falls have become one of the major issues in the health care system. In most developed countries, most frequent stumbles and falls occur in and around the community or at home. A number of wearable devices integrated with accelerometers...
Nowadays, Heart related diseases are on the rise. Cardiac arrest is quoted as the major contributor to sudden and unexpected death rate in the modern stress filled lifestyle around the globe. A system that warns the person about the onset of the disease earlier automatically will be a boon to the society. This is achievable by deploying advances in wireless technology to the existing patient monitoring...
Tele-health is an inter-disciplinary area where the delivery of health, medical information and services over large and small distances is possible by combining electronic information with communication technologies. Deaths from cardiovascular diseases have decreased substantially over the past two decades, largely as a result of advances in acute care and cardiac surgery. These developments have...
This paper describes a medical IT platform based on Wireless Sensor Networks and e-textile which supports indoor location-aware services as well as monitoring physiological parameters, such as ECG, heart rate, body temperature, etc., from a group of patients within hospital facilities. The paper presents the architecture, system deployment and validation results based on local test as well as on a...
This works illustrates the LAURA system, which performs localization, tracking and monitoring of patients hosted at nursing institutes by exploiting a wireless sensor network based on the IEEE 801.15.4 (Zigbee) standard. We focus on the indoor personal localization module, which leverages a method based on received signal strength measurements, together with a particle filter to perform tracking of...
In this paper indoor wireless Infrared (IR) technology for healthcare monitoring is studied. Monitoring provides a continuous and reliable vital sign measurement to secure patient staying in the hospital. Considering that patient moving is inevitable, we focus on a mobile IR channel based on diffuse propagation. A model of mobile channel is developed through the study of statistical distributions...
A sleep-monitoring analysis system was designed to collect and storage people's several kinds of physiology signal without affecting their sleep. It was combined with virtual instrument, which set up a signal processing platform on personal computer, to analyze stored signal by methods like time domain, frequency domain and power spectrum. We can get people's physical condition through that signal...
Healthcare services are becoming vital and growing immensely with the passage of time, and so is the use of information technology in every aspect of life. Information and communication technologies are essential parts of any healthcare or life critical solution available in this era - the era of information technology. Quality is one of the major issues that are currently being faced. For healthcare...
Mobile healthcare (m-healthcare) systems are regarded as a solution to address skyrocketing healthcare costs without reducing the quality of patient care. It is our aim to build an m-Healthcare platform based on the service-oriented computing paradigm. We are developing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) for m-healthcare services platform, called SOAMOH that shall also support interfacing with...
Recent advances in ultra lightweight communications and sensor devices have ushered in a new range of applications to incorporate location awareness into mission critical situations such as remote health monitoring of chronically ill patients or emergency response personnel. However, in an open environment where these devices could potentially operate in the future, reliable and accurate positioning...
Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is one of the leading causes of death which underlie one third of the world's death. The online monitoring and early warning message to cardiovascular system might protect sudden heart disease and save human's life. Scientists have used various vital signs to detect and predict CVD, such as blood pressure (BP), electrocardiogram (ECG), sphygmogram (SPG) and pulse wave...
The body area sensor network is widely regarded as a key technology that holds promise of enabling low-cost healthcare to be accessible to the fast growing aging sector of the population. The popularity of smartphones with their open operating systems provides a powerful platform for developing very low-cost personalized healthcare applications. In addition to the requirement of low cost, the limited...
The monitoring blood pressure at home is an important part of managing hypertension. We have developed a home healthcare system to monitor blood pressure. Our system has operated for about 1 year. In this study, we focused on blood pressure monitoring and discussed the motivation of subjects, and the importance of monitoring. We tested two different locations: one was a non-interventional location...
This paper explores a sensor fusion method within Smart Homes to be used to monitor human activities in addition to managing uncertainty in sensor based readings. A case study has shown that the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence can incorporate the uncertainty derived from the sensor errors and the sensor context and infer the activity. The results from this work show that this method can detect...
As the number of cardiovascular related deaths is increasing not only in the western world but also in the developing countries, and there are only limited cardiac diagnosis related resources, it is expected that many healthcare centres will turn to automated diagnosis of ECGs for large number of patients. While systems and tools have been proposed and developed for a handful of cardiovascular diseases,...
ReMINE is a novel framework architecture for the management of risk against patient safety (RAPS) in health care systems. ReMINE allows for the collection and analysis of RAPS-related data through a semantic approach which offers a fast and secure extraction of data and correlation of the information across several domains. In this respect, the ReMINE platform will promote an early RAPS detection...
Monitoring activities of daily living is one of the key functionalities expected from a Smart Living environment providing independent living services for elderly people. Simple state-change sensors have been considered to be a promising sensing technique to observe the environment and consequently provide the data required to form the basis to infer high-level behaviours. From a data analysis point...
In this paper we discuss the development and clinical evaluation of a wireless platform for health signs sensing. The sensors measure physical activity, ECG, blood oxygen saturation, temperature and respiratory rate. An important aspect of the approach is that the sensors are integrated into one waist-worn device. A mobile phone collects data from this device and uses data fusion in the scope of a...
An advanced ubiquitous healthcare monitoring system is proposed with the aid of wireless sensor network based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard relay sensor nodes. In this work, wearable healthcare devices are used to measure the human body vital signs, while relay sensor nodes are installed at the room's ceiling to transfer the patient's vital signs to the desktop or mobile. Our proposed architecture...
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