Medical and Home automation Sensor Networks for Senior Citizens Telehomecare

International audienceThis paper presents a home Tele-healthcare system for the senior citizens. The system uses home automation sensors to detect activity level of the persons. It is equipped also with other technologies to monitor them and detect any abnormal state in their health situation, like as bed and chair sensors, a mini PC connected to a TV, medical sensors, a wireless camera network. The system detects health abnormalities at an early stage through the frequent monitoring of physiological data. The system is designed for the elderly patients who wish to spend their old age in their own home, because of its potentials to increase independence and quality of life for seniors who prefer to live in their own homes and to realize cost savings for the health care system. By using this system MEDeTIC, a non-profit organization proposes a new concept of building smart homes named “Vill'Âge” at France

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A Distributed Elderly healthcare System

International audienceThe recent advances of ICT allow developing new generation of telehomecare systems to enable elderly health monitoring and management and ease their daily life. Such a system can reduce the amount of admissions to hospital, facilitate more efficient clinical visits, and may replace a hospital stay by living at home. In this paper we present a patient oriented distributed telehomecare system, by which we created a new concept of building smart home by integrating telemedicine and home automation systems

Radio propagation modelling in the downlink LTE

In order to support development of third generation partnership project long term evolution (3GPP LTE) packet scheduling algorithms, research has been conducted into several radio propagation effects. The radio channels of interest are the downlink (eNodeB to user equipment) of LTE mobile networks. Through network simulator modification and repeated testing the effects of error and delay in reporting available user mobile Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) has been investigated. Simulation results show that errors in reported SNR will increase erroneous transmission, and the effect increased with greater numbers of users. Simulations results also show that the effect of processing delay is largely dependent on the velocity of the affected mobile user. ©2010 IEEE

A Context-aware Tele-homecare System for Senior Citizens

International audienceAs part of a thesis at the Loria research center of National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine (INPL) and MEDETIC, a non-for-profit organization, a tele-homecare system is developed. The segment of population, we are targeting is the senior citizens. This system uses home automation sensors and other environmental sensors like bed and chair sensors to monitor the activity level of the elderly. Activity patterns are analyzed by an intelligent application which is based on Fuzzy Logic to find any unusual behavior. The system is designed for the elderly who wish to spend their old age in their own home, because of its potential to increase independence and quality of life. This would not only benefit the elderly who want to live in their own home, but also the national health care system by cutting costs significantly