Health Smart Home
Ahmad Choukeir, Batoul Fneish, Nour Zaarour, Walid Fahs, Mohammad Ayache · 2010
We present in this paper a study and an experimental medical tele-surveillance system for maintaining patients at home. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how combining many kinds of technologies starting with sensors connected to the patient then using wireless technology (ZigBee) to transmit information and finally analysis and detection of critical situation such as falls, ECG problems, hypothermia hyperthermia by using a GUI created to fulfill these missions. Many physiological parameters can be studied but we tended in our project to study ECG signal, heart rate, temperature of the patient, fall detection and medication reminder. Results obtained allow the user to visualize online the parameters and to detect any problem that occurs, so by using this system we can observe the status of the patient during his normal life at his home. personal reasons because the ability of the “smart home” to measure medical data, and send it to the medical center through a network, makes it possible to lengthen the independent living at home. The diagram described below aims to show how Health Smart Home contributes to increase the quality of life of patients and how telemedicine allows helping diagnostics of diseases without retardation to detect the minimal deterioration in patient’s status.