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An increasingly aging population will challenge the current organization of society and will require new technological solutions for assisting as well as maintaining the health of this demographic. In this article, results from an experiment on remote monitoring of a domestic environment implemented in the home of an elderly citizen, are presented.
A system comprised of several types of both stationary and body-worn sensors together with a framework for collecting, interpreting and presenting the gathered data in a useful manner was developed, and a pilot-study was conducted. It is demonstrated that one can get useful information via remote monitoring, even implemented as a low cost monitoring system using off-the-shelf components. It is shown that such a system could have significance in assisting health personnel.
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Skjønsfjell, M.E.B., Normann, A.R., Sjong, D., Skavhaug, A. (2012). Addressing the Needs of an Aging Population: An Experiment for Monitoring Behaviour in a Domestic Environment. In: Ortmeier, F., Daniel, P. (eds) Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security. SAFECOMP 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7613. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33675-1_41
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