Authors:
Wided Souidene
1
;
Dan Istrate
1
;
Hamid Medjahed
1
;
Jérôme Boudy
2
;
François Delavault
2
;
Jean-Louis Baldinger
2
;
Imad Belfeki
2
and
François Steenkeste
3
Affiliations:
1
ESIGETEL–LRIT, France
;
2
EPH - Telecom Sud Paris, France
;
3
INSERM, France
Keyword(s):
Telemedicine, Design and development methodologies for Healthcare IT, Interoperability, Semantic interoperability, Databases and datawarehousing, Datamining, Support for clinical decision-making, Wearable health informatics.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Biomedical Signal Processing
;
Development of Assistive Technology
;
Devices
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Health Information Systems
;
Healthcare Management Systems
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Mobile Technologies
;
Mobile Technologies for Healthcare Applications
;
Neural Rehabilitation
;
Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics
;
Physiological Computing Systems
;
Software Engineering
;
Telemedicine
;
Wearable Sensors and Systems
Abstract:
This paper describes a multimodal platform dedicated to in-home healthcare monitoring. This platform consists in three heterogeneous and complementary systems which are designed to provide a sense of safety and connectedness for those being monitored. In this article we present a detailed description of the multiple sensors used to remotely monitor elderly or a patient health. These are: a set of microphones suitably placed in the home, a wearable device and a set of infrared sensors. This platform is remotely used by the medical staff in order to help them to take the right decision about the patient and/or elderly situation. It has a couple of great advantages. First, its good acceptance by the end-users since it is less intrusive than other healthcare systems. Second, it is reliable and robust since it performs the fusion of outputs of three complementary healthcare systems.