Activity Monitoring of the Elderly for Telecare Systems - Review

Accelerometric signals in automatic balance assessment

“…Automatic activity recognition systems often employ basic scalar acceleration characteristics, like the signal mean, standard deviation or peak-to-peak amplitude in a specified time window [23,30]. The sum of the signal absolute values in one of directions has been found as a more useful measure.…”

“…In our previous works, we focused on the development of an ambient assisted living (AAL) system for activity monitoring of the elderly in home environment [23,24]. The overall aim of the current research is to ensure well-being of the elderly people who are living (possibly alone) in their homes.…”

Acceleration trajectory analysis in remote gait monitoring

“…With such a model, each short-and longterm disturbances might be detected and cause an appropriate reaction. A broad review of such Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) systems architecture and abilities have been drawn by Mitas et al [1]. Although they employ various acquisition techniques and devices, e.g.…”

Telemonitoring system for home rehabilitation of patients with COPD

“…Home care for patients with chronic conditions is becoming an integral part of the new healthcare strategies in most of the countries world-wide, with an estimated number of over 5 million connected end users of telemedicine systems [1], [2]. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a long term respiratory condition, usually characterized by a high frequency of exacerbations which requires patient hospitalization for several days.…”