A new safety support system for wandering elderly persons

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5232-5235

  Matsuoka, Shingo ^a   Ogawa, Hidekuni ^b   Maki, Hiromichi ^b   Yonezawa, Yoshiharu ^b   Caldwell, W Morton ^c  

^a International Trinity College   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c Caldwell Biomedical Electronics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE LOCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL SOUNDS; INTERNET ACCESS; MOVEMENT AREAS; ONE CHIP; SAFETY SUPPORT SYSTEMS; TRANSMITTING POWER; WEARABLE SENSORS;

INTERNET; MICROPHONES; MOBILE ANTENNAS; MOBILE PHONES; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SENSORS; TELEPHONE SETS;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

ACTIMETRY; AGED; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; TELEMETRY; VERY ELDERLY; WANDERING BEHAVIOR;

ACTIGRAPHY; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELLULAR PHONE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; PATIENT SAFETY; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TELEMETRY; WANDERING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84055184752     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091294     Document Type: Conference Paper

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