A wireless sensor network for assisted living at home of elderly people

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5602 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2009, Pages 65-74

  Fernández Luque, Francisco ^a   Zapata, Juan ^a   Ruiz, Ramón ^a   Iborra, Emilio ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Pervasive computing; Smart sensors; Ubiquitous monitoring; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ASSISTED LIVING; ELDERLY PEOPLE; HETEROGENEOUS SENSORS; LOCAL COMPUTATION; LOW POWER; MONITORING SYSTEM; MULTIHOP NETWORKS; PERVASIVE COMPUTING; RADIO MESSAGES; SIGNAL MEASUREMENT; UBIQUITOUS MONITORING; WIRELESS DATA TRANSFER; ZIGBEE TECHNOLOGY;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DATA TRANSFER; MONITORING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; ROUTING PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SMART SENSORS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 70350685734     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02267-8_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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