Smart home for elderly using optimized number of wireless sensors

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

Volumn 64 LNEE, Issue , 2010, Pages 307-328

  Gaddam, G ^a   Mukhopadhyay, S C ^a   Sen Gupta, G ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL CONDITIONS; DAILY LIVES; EARLY WARNING; ELDERLY PEOPLE; HOME MONITORING SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT SENSORS; OPTIMAL NUMBER; OPTIMUM NUMBER; POTENTIAL PROBLEMS; SMART HOMES; SMART SYSTEM; WATER FLOW SENSORS; WIRELESS SENSOR;

OPTIMIZATION; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

SENSORS;

EID: 78651524593     PISSN: 18761100     EISSN: 18761119     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12707-6_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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