The cricket compass for context-aware mobile applications
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
The anatomy of a context-aware application
Wireless Networks - Selected Papers from Mobicom'99
Distributed medium access control for wireless mesh networks: Research Articles
Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing - Medium Access Control Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
A secure handshake scheme with symptoms-matching for mHealthcare social network
Mobile Networks and Applications - Special issue on Wireless and Personal Communications
The use of mobile devices in the care and home monitoring of the elderly and the sick
ITIB'12 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Information Technologies in Biomedicine
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As the baby boom generation is aging, more and more people are diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, early detection of which is shown to be vital and necessary for better medical treatments and prolonging life expectancies. In this article we propose a Bluetooth-enabled in-home patient monitoring system, facilitating early detection of Alzheimer's disease. We take advantage of shortrange Bluetooth communications for in-home patient location tracking, and the location information can then be recorded in a local database. With knowledge of the movement pattern of a patient, a medical practitioner is more likely to be able to determine whether a target patient is developing Alzheimer's disease. We also conduct a feasibility study, and our study shows that the proposed in-home patient monitoring system is feasible and can be applied in practice. Our proposed e-healthcare solution is expected to facilitate medical treatments, improve the quality of life of senior people, and reduce healthcare costs.