A Method for Automatically Detecting the Living-Alone Elderly's Abnormal Behavior with RTLS

DOI

10.2991/icca-16.2016.61How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Assisted living environment, Abnormal behavior detection, Threshold value, Classification, The living-alone elderly

Abstract

With the development of society, the population of aging has become increasingly prominent. Especially children do not live together with the elderly, when tumbles and other dangerous situations happen to the elderly who live alone in their own room, and their lives may be threatened for lack of timely treatment. In this paper, we have discovered a solution to monitor the elderly by means of equipping their home with the indoor positioning system which is based on the UWB technique and its precision between 10cm and 30cm.Experiments show that the rate of false alarm is relatively low, and it can be accepted that using the solution which is provided in this paper to send alert when checking the elderly’s abnormal behavior.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Junshuai Liang
AU  - Zhongqing Yu
AU  - Shuai Yang
PY  - 2016/01
DA  - 2016/01
TI  - A Method for Automatically Detecting the Living-Alone Elderly's Abnormal Behavior with RTLS
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Intelligent Control and Computer Application
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 261
EP  - 264
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icca-16.2016.61
DO  - 10.2991/icca-16.2016.61
ID  - Liang2016/01
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