Pervasive Computing
AMON: A Wearable Medical Computer for High Risk Patients
ISWC '02 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers
The Design of A Personal and Intelligent Pervasive-Commerce System Architecture
WMCS '05 Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Commerce and Services
ICOST'10 Proceedings of the Aging friendly technology for health and independence, and 8th international conference on Smart homes and health telematics
An intelligent agent for determining home occupancy using power monitors and light sensors
ICOST'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Toward useful services for elderly and people with disabilities: smart homes and health telematics
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One major challenge to successful aging is the capability to preserve health, or from another perspective to avoid disease. Unfortunately, a large percentage of the elderly people are living with chronic diseases or disabilities. Home care technologies and other emerging technologies have the potential to play a major role in home-based health care approach. The advent of sensor technology, in addition to telecom industry has made this possible. The main goal of the presented research in this paper is to develop a cost-effective user-friendly telehealth system to serve the elderly and disabled people in the community. The research also aims at utilizing the state-of-the-art advances in medical instrumentation technology to establish a continuous communication link between patients and caregivers and allow physicians to offer help when needed. Hence, we are presenting here an integrated user-friendly model of a smart home which provides telemedicine for elderly at home. The general problem addressed in this paper is that of offering a smart environment which monitors the elderly continuously as he moves around at home, and sends an emergency call for help in case of an occurrence of an accident or a severe health problem. The paper focuses on implementation details and practical considerations of integrating the diverse technologies into a working system.