Design and Real Life Deployment of a Pervasive Monitoring System for Dementia Patients

Friedrich Hanser; Agnes Gruenerbl; Clemens Rodegast; Paul Lukowicz

2nd International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

Research Article

Design and Real Life Deployment of a Pervasive Monitoring System for Dementia Patients

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2523,
    author={Friedrich Hanser and Agnes Gruenerbl and Clemens Rodegast and Paul Lukowicz},
    title={Design and Real Life Deployment of a Pervasive Monitoring System for Dementia Patients},
    proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH},
    year={2008},
    month={7},
    keywords={Biomedical monitoring Dementia  Embedded system Medical services Patient monitoring Psychology Senior citizens Sensor arrays Sensor systems Sleep},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2523}
}

Friedrich Hanser
Agnes Gruenerbl
Clemens Rodegast
Paul Lukowicz
Year: 2008
Design and Real Life Deployment of a Pervasive Monitoring System for Dementia Patients
PERVASIVEHEALTH
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2523

Friedrich Hanser¹^,*, Agnes Gruenerbl¹, Clemens Rodegast², Paul Lukowicz²

1: Research Division for Pervasive Health UMIT, Hall i. Tirol, Austria
2: Embedded Systems Lab, University of Passau, Germany.

*Contact email: friedrich.hanser@umit.at

Abstract

We present the first phase of a project for monitoring elderly people suffering from dementia in the ’real life’ environment of an ’assisted living’ flat associated with a nursing home. Based on monitoring requirements derived in discussions with the nursing staff the system consists of a UBISENSE location system for monitoring location, a sound-system for monitoring vocal interaction, and the TECO ’Particles’ sensor nodes mounted under the beds for sleep monitoring. In this paper we introduce the background and environment of the project, describe the requirements and the system and present some initial data collected in the first deployment period.

Keywords: Biomedical monitoring Dementia Embedded system Medical services Patient monitoring Psychology Senior citizens Sensor arrays Sensor systems Sleep

Published: 2008-07-22
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2523