Exploitation of wireless technology in remote care processes

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E92-B, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 373-378

  Hämäläinen, Matti ^a   Taparugssanagorn, Attaphongse ^a   Iinatti, Jari ^a   Kohno, Ryuji ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Remote care; UWB; WBAN

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; HOSPITALS; REMOTE SENSING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EASTERN FINLAND; HEALTHCARE SECTORS; HUMAN CONTEXT; REMOTE CARE; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS; WBAN; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES;

NURSING;

EID: 71949128185     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: 17451345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E92.B.373     Document Type: Conference Paper

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