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Nowadays Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) represents one of the leading causes of hospital admission among chronic diseases, especially for elderly citizens. Monitoring of vital signs, performed at patients' home, has been identified by physicians and administrators as an important strategy to early detect and treat the alterations in vital signs that precede the acute syndromes, in order to reduce the...
This paper aims to show the necessity, requirements and development of an affordable monitoring and telecare system for patients with chronic heart failure. It presents Health @ Home1, a project partly co-funded by the European Ambient Assisted Living Programme (AAL) which has the purpose to provide an integral solution for the societal problems related to the provision of healthcare services for...
State-of-the-art object detection methods are usually developed on a PC-based platform in consideration of its implementation feasibility. However, various applications such as car license recognition, lane departure warning system or telecare system require the use of an embedded platform. In this paper, we proposed approaches to migrate object detection algorithm while realizing it on an embedded...
This paper describes a new sleep monitoring system for home use. The basic system consists of a wearable physiological sensor and the PC software for analyzing sleep quality from user's wrist motion and heart rate variability. Different from a conventional sleep monitoring device used in a hospital, the sensor is so small and easy-to-use that a normal person can use it at home. This means that the...
Quality of life a of population represents a wide range of opportunities for personalized technologies supporting all areas of information and communication technologies (ICT), mainly wireless communications. In fact, most national policies are considering these communication and information systems as the basic elements for the emerging healthcare and social needs currently under serious economic...
The paper describes a strategy to implement an alarm component in a server from a tele-assistance / tele-monitoring system to assist elderly persons. The system consists of units located at the homes of the monitored persons collecting and sending medical and environmental data from sensors and a call centre with a server for recording and monitoring the data. Here, specialised staff will support...
This paper combines the ZigBee wireless communication system with the Internet system to be the structure of telecare system. The system can serve the careless elders, the disable and the whom live in elderly center, Telecare System not only reduces the service manpower and the cost but also increases the care quality and service efficiency. The telecare system consists of four devices, which are...
The medical costs for elderly people in Taiwan have increased largely due to the increasing number of aging people in the country. To meet the goals and requirements of the National Health Insurance (NHI), designing and providing a program which would reduce the unnecessary medical services demanded by elderly people is needed. In this research, a conceptual service model of the telecare system applied...
The inclusion of remote monitoring as an element of care provision packages for older adults (telecare) has the potential to significantly augment traditional social care. In this paper, we discuss the use of ambient, and integrated ambient and body sensing, for telecare applications. Work is described on creating ambient solutions which are sufficiently flexible to be effective for a broad range...
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