Wireless health care service system for elderly with dementia
Journal
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
Journal Volume
10
Journal Issue
4
Pages
696-704
Date Issued
2006
Author(s)
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to integrate the technologies of radio frequency identification, global positioning system, global system for mobile communications, and geographic information system (GIS) to construct a stray prevention system for elderly persons suffering from dementia without interfering with their activities of daily livings. We also aim to improve the passive and manpowered way of searching the missing patient with the help of the information technology. Our system provides four monitoring schemes, including indoor residence monitoring, outdoor activity area monitoring, emergency rescue, and remote monitoring modes, and we have developed a service platform to implement these monitoring schemes. The platform consists of a web service server, a database server, a message controller server, and a health-GIS (H-GIS) server. Family members or volunteer workers can identify the real-time positions of missing elderly using mobile phone, PDA, Notebook PC, and various mobile devices through the service platform. System performance and reliability is analyzed. Experiments performed on four different time slots, from three locations, through three mobile telecommunication companies show that the overall transaction time is 34 s and the average deviation of the geographical location is about 8 m. A questionnaire surveyed by 11 users show that eight users are satisfied with the system stability and 10 users would like to carry the locating device themselves, or recommend it to their family members. ? 2006 IEEE.
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Other Subjects
Database systems; Geographic information systems; Global positioning system; Global system for mobile communications; Information technology; Servers; Dementia; Radio frequency identification; Ubiquitous network; Health care; aged; ambulatory monitoring; article; computer interface; daily life activity; dementia; equipment; equipment design; evaluation; female; geographic information system; human; instrumentation; male; methodology; nursing; nursing care; signal processing; telemedicine; telemetry; Activities of Daily Living; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Dementia; Equipment Design; Equipment Failure Analysis; Female; Geographic Information Systems; Humans; Male; Monitoring, Ambulatory; Nursing Care; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; Telemedicine; Telemetry; User-Computer Interface
Type
journal article