Altcare: Safe living for elderly people

2010 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Pervasive Health 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Shoaib, Muhammad ^a   Elbrandt, Tobias ^a   Dragon, Ralf ^a   Ostermann, Jörn ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elderly people; Emergency; Fall detection; Monitoring; Vision based

Indexed keywords

ELDERLY PEOPLE; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY CALLS; EMERGENCY SITUATION; FALL DETECTION; FIRST AIDS; LIVING ALONE; LIVING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL HISTORY; PERSONAL INFORMATION; RESPONSIBLE PERSON; STATIC NETWORKS; VISION BASED;

SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA);

VIDEO CAMERAS;

EID: 77954407956     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.8878     Document Type: Conference Paper

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