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A Location and Emergency Monitoring System for Elder Care using ZigBee
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- Authors
- Cheonshu Park, Jaehong Kim
- Issue Date
- 2011-12
- Citation
- International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN) 2011, pp.367-369
- Language
- English
- Type
- Conference Paper
- Abstract
- This paper describes a location and emergency monitoring system, which aims to monitor an emergency situation, activities and location for elder care. The watch-type device detect emergency such as emergency call or fall. The collected data through the ZigBee network is send to a DB server and stored in a DB. A care staff recognizes an emergency message via SMS or monitoring interface. At the same time, robot moves to an emergency location and sends video stream to a caregiver using tele-presence. A caregiver copes with an emergency. This system was tested in a retirement village. © 2011 IEEE.
- KSP Keywords
- Emergency monitoring, Monitoring interface, Monitoring system, Tele-presence, ZigBee Network, elder care, emergency calls, emergency message, emergency situation, video stream