Monitoring and detection platform to prevent anomalous situations in home care

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 14; no. 6; pp. 9900 - 9921
• Main Authors: Villarrubia, Gabriel, Bajo, Javier, De Paz, Juan F, Corchado, Juan M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 05.06.2014; MDPI
• Subjects: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Elder care; Electrocardiography; Electrocardiography, Ambulatory; Hardware; home care; Home Care Services; Humans; indoor location; Interactive television; Internet; Monitoring; Monitoring, Physiologic - methods; Monitors; multi-agent system; Pangea; Patients; Platforms; Radio frequency identification; Sensors; Systems Integration; Telemedicine; Telemedicine - methods; Tracking; User behavior; User needs; Virtual organization; WIFI; Europe; Spain
• ISSN: 1424-8220; 1424-8220
• DOI: 10.3390/s140609900

Monitoring and tracking people at home usually requires high cost hardware installations, which implies they are not affordable in many situations. This study/paper proposes a monitoring and tracking system for people with medical problems. A virtual organization of agents based on the PANGEA platform, which allows the easy integration of different devices, was created for this study. In this case, a virtual organization was implemented to track and monitor patients carrying a Holter monitor. The system includes the hardware and software required to perform: ECG measurements, monitoring through accelerometers and WiFi networks. Furthermore, the use of interactive television can moderate interactivity with the user. The system makes it possible to merge the information and facilitates patient tracking efficiently with low cost.