TY - GEN
T1 - A wireless platform for fall and mobility monitoring in health care
AU - Van De Ven, Pepijn
AU - Bourke, Alan
AU - Nelson, John
AU - Laighin, Gearóid
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2008 ICST.
PY - 2011/11/29
Y1 - 2011/11/29
N2 - In this paper a new platform for monitoring of mobility in health care is presented. The platform was designed with a primary aim at monitoring of mobility and fall incidents in elderly people and is part of a wider system that uses web interfaces to gather data on several vital signs, mobility and fall events, and to communicate with the elderly people and warn family, health carers or emergency services if necessary. The fall and mobility sensing platform is based on measurements of the subject's accelerations in three degrees of freedom. Gathered data can be relayed to a mobile phone using a Bluetooth radio after which the information can be relayed to a web server. In this paper the design of the platform and tests with healthy subjects and with elderly subjects are discussed.
AB - In this paper a new platform for monitoring of mobility in health care is presented. The platform was designed with a primary aim at monitoring of mobility and fall incidents in elderly people and is part of a wider system that uses web interfaces to gather data on several vital signs, mobility and fall events, and to communicate with the elderly people and warn family, health carers or emergency services if necessary. The fall and mobility sensing platform is based on measurements of the subject's accelerations in three degrees of freedom. Gathered data can be relayed to a mobile phone using a Bluetooth radio after which the information can be relayed to a web server. In this paper the design of the platform and tests with healthy subjects and with elderly subjects are discussed.
KW - Fall sensing
KW - Mobility monitoring
KW - Wireless communications
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85118316959&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4108/ICST.BODYNETS2008.2953
DO - 10.4108/ICST.BODYNETS2008.2953
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85118316959
T3 - BODYNETS 2008 - 3rd International ICST Conference on Body Area Networks
BT - BODYNETS 2008 - 3rd International ICST Conference on Body Area Networks
A2 - Panchanathan, Sethuraman
A2 - Gupta, Sandeep
PB - ICST
T2 - 3rd International ICST Conference on Body Area Networks, BODYNETS 2008
Y2 - 13 March 2008 through 15 March 2008
ER -