Healthcare Oriented Smart House for Elderly and/or Disabled People: A Case Study

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Author(s): Nicholas S. Samaras (TEI of Larissa, Greece), Costas Chaikalis (TEI of Larissa, Greece)and Giorgios Siafakas (TEI of Larissa, Greece)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 25
Source title: Wireless Technologies for Ambient Assisted Living and Healthcare: Systems and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Athina Lazakidou (University of Peloponnese, Greece), Konstantinos Siassiakos (University of Piraeus, Greece)and Konstantinos Ioannou (University of Patras, Greece)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-805-0.ch008

Keywords: Health Information Systems / Medical Information Science Reference / Medical Technologies / Medicine & Healthcare

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Smart houses represent a modern technology which can secure and facilitate our life. The objective of this chapter is to adapt medical sensors to home automated systems, which collect medical data such as blood pressure, heart rate and electrical heart activity for elderly and/or disabled persons. Firstly, the collected data is transferred to a home server and to an external manager for further analysis. Subsequently, data is stored at a database where monitoring is available only for authorized users via a simple web interface. The IEEE 802.15.4 wireless standard has been chosen as the preferred solution for communication in the smart house. Finally, two implementation scenarios of the smart house for an elderly and/or disabled person are simulated using the Custodian software tool. This case study shows that simulating the automation system of a smart house before the implementation is advantageous.

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