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    Minimal Hardware Bluetooth Tracking for Long-Term At-Home Elder Supervision


    Kelly, Damien, McLoone, Sean F. and Farrell, Ronan (2010) Minimal Hardware Bluetooth Tracking for Long-Term At-Home Elder Supervision. In: EMBC 2010 Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE, Piscataway, N.J., pp. 2136-2140. ISBN 9781424441235

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    Abstract

    The ability to automatically detect the location of an elder within their own home is a significant enabler of remote elder supervision and interaction applications. This location information is typically generated via a myriad of sensors throughout the home environment. Even with high sensor redundancy, there are still situations where traditional elder monitoring systems are unable to resolve the location of the elder. This work develops a minimal infrastructure radio-frequency localisation system for long-term elder location tracking. An RFID room-labelling technique is employed and with it, the localisation system developed in this work is shown to exhibit superior performance to more traditional localisation systems in realistic long-term deployments.
    Item Type: Book Section
    Additional Information: The final and definitive version of this article is available at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627279
    Keywords: Bluetooth; geriatrics; patient monitoring; radiofrequency identification; telemedicine;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Science and Engineering > Electronic Engineering
    Item ID: 3958
    Depositing User: Ronan Farrell
    Date Deposited: 24 Oct 2012 15:34
    Publisher: IEEE
    Refereed: Yes
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    URI: https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/3958
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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