A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
Elderly Monitoring System with Sleep and Fall Detector
Authors: Abdulakeem Odunmbaku, Amir-Mohammad Rahmani, Pasi Liljeberg, Hannu Tenhunen
Editors: Benny Mandler, Johann Marquez-Barja, Miguel Elias Mitre Campista, Dagmar Cagáňová, Hakima Chaouchi, Sherali Zeadally, Mohamad Badra, Stefano Giordano, Maria Fazio, Andrey Somov, Radu-Laurentiu Vieriu
Conference name: International Internet of Things Summit
Publisher: SPRINGER INT PUBLISHING AG, GEWERBESTRASSE 11, CHAM, CH-6330, SWITZERLAND
Publication year: 2016
Book title : Internet of Things. IoT Infrastructures: Second International Summit, IoT 360° 2015, Rome, Italy, October 27-29, 2015. Revised Selected Papers, Part I
Journal name in source: INTERNET OF THINGS: IOT INFRASTRUCTURES, PT I
Journal acronym: L N INST COMP SCI SO
Series title: Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
Volume: 169
First page : 473
Last page: 480
Number of pages: 8
ISBN: 978-3-319-47062-7
eISBN: 978-3-319-47063-4
ISSN: 1867-8211
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47063-4_51
Monitoring of elderly people has drawn attention of healthcare and medical professionals. Various health problems have been attributed to either fall or lack of sleep in the context of elderly people. Falling and sleep problems on a long term basis could eventually lead to sharp deteriorate in health, poor state of health and high cost for covering their health care. In this paper a new accurate and convenient while cost-efficient implementation of a monitoring system is presented. The use of an accelerometer based system was utilized in this work. The targeted device fit for this implementation is a smart watch. The algorithm of both the fall detector and sleep monitor presented in this work have been implemented and tested on multiple subjects. It also includes a database backend which is used to save the information collected from the system for further analysis and can provide healthcare professional with more insight of the person's life and can help more on further health medication being given to the person.
