Combined Scheduling of Sensing and Communication for Real-Time Indoor Tracking in Assisted Living

As the elderly population increases, the elderly care using inexpensive technological means becomes critical. This paper proposes novel scheduling algorithms for real-time indoor tracking of elderly residents, which is essential to assist and secure their independent living. Our scheduling algorithm...

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Published in2006 27th IEEE International Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS'06) pp. 281 - 290
Main Authors Min-Young Nam, Al-Sabbagh, M.Z., Chang-Gun Lee
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.12.2006
Subjects
Environmental economics
Humans
Medical services
Prototypes
Radio frequency
Radiofrequency identification
Real time systems
RF signals
Scheduling algorithm
Senior citizens
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Summary:As the elderly population increases, the elderly care using inexpensive technological means becomes critical. This paper proposes novel scheduling algorithms for real-time indoor tracking of elderly residents, which is essential to assist and secure their independent living. Our scheduling algorithms are designed by harmonizing both sensing and communication signals and leveraging location-awareness and mobility-consciousness, in order to improve the tracking accuracy while reducing the energy consumption. We performed extensive experiments through both simulation and actual implementation. Our experimental result says that our scheduling algorithms can provide real-time tracking of residents within 20 cm error bound in the typical range of human mobility
ISBN:0769527612
9780769527611
ISSN:1052-8725
2576-3172
DOI:10.1109/RTSS.2006.13