Ubiquitous-health (U-Health) monitoring systems for elders and caregivers

Abstract

This paper presents two affordable low-tack system for household biomedical wellness monitoring. The first system, JIKIMI (pronounced caregiver in Korean), is a remote monitoring system that analyzes the behavior patterns of elders that live alone. JIKIMI is composed of an in-house sensing system, a set of wireless sensor nodes containing a pyroelectric infrared sensor to detect the motion of elders, an emergency button and a magnetic sensor that detects the opening and closing of doors. The system is also equipped with a server system, which is comprised of a database and web server. The server provides the mechanism for web-based monitoring to caregivers. The second system, Reader of Bottle Information (ROBI), is an assistant system which advises the contents of bottles for elders. ROBI is composed of bottles that have connected RFID tags and an advice system, which is composed of a wireless RFID reader, a gateway and a remote database server.. The RFID tags are connected to the caps of the bottles are used in conjunction with the advice system These systems have been in use for three years and have proven to be useful for caregivers to provide more efficient and effective care services.

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“…Cheaper applications can be designed by using low-cost, off-the-shelf solutions (Adlam and Orpwood 2008;Alesii et al 2013;Chaaraoui et al 2012;Chang and Wang 2010;Doctor et al 2014;Drajsajtl, Struk, and Bednárová 2013;Droes et al 2007;Fernandez-Luque et al 2013;Floeck, Litz, and Rodner 2011;Fuxreiter et al 2010;Grech et al 2010;Helal et al 2012;Hristova, Bernardos, and Casar 2008;James et al 2009;Koch 2006;Magjarevic 2007;Mokhtari et al 2012;Moon et al 2011;Olivier et al 2009;Rocha et al 2013;Rodrigues et al 2011;Sanchez-Pi and Molina 2009;Zhang et al 2014;Zheng et al 2012;Zhou et al 2011), such as motion sensors (Alwan 2009;Bamis et al 2010;Fuxreiter et al 2010;Kropf et al 2012) or web cameras (Elbouz, Alfalou, and Brosseau 2011;Mihailidis, Carmichael, and Boger 2004). A typical example is the one provided by Lopes, Jose, and Aguiar (2011) who described an approach for enabling digital photo frames (which are off-the-shelf by nature) to become generic key devices in the AAL ecosystem.…”