A smart home application to eldercare: Current status and lessons learned

Technology and Health Care

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 183-201

  Skubic, Marjorie ^a,b   Alexander, Gregory ^b   Popescu, Mihail ^b   Rantz, Marilyn ^b   Keller, James ^a,b  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Eldercare technology; Passive monitoring; Sensor networks; Smart home; Video sensor network

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; COLOMBIA; COMPUTER NETWORK; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DATA BASE; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTRONIC SENSOR; FALLING; HEALTH STATUS; HOME MONITORING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; SLEEP DISORDER; VIDEORECORDING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY; HUMANS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; TELEMETRY;

EID: 68949156282     PISSN: 09287329     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/THC-2009-0551     Document Type: Article

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