TY - GEN

T1 - Altcare

T2 - 2010 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Pervasive Health 2010

AU - Shoaib, Muhammad

AU - Elbrandt, Tobias

AU - Dragon, Ralf

AU - Ostermann, Jörn

PY - 2010/6/7

Y1 - 2010/6/7

N2 - Elderly people are the most growing segment of the population. Most of the elderly people like to live an independent life at their own homes in a familiar environment. Living alone is not always safe, and often emergency situations like a fall and unconsciousness occur. We present an ambient assistant living system Altcare, based on static network video cameras. The Altcare automatically learns the common events and their location. Furthermore it detects the emergency situations happening with elderly people. In case of some emergency situations, the Altcare first confirms it with the monitored person. In case of a positive response or no response at all, the emergency situation is notified to the responsible persons, in order to get timely and effective help. Along with personal information and a short medical history of the elderly person, a patch of masked video showing the emergency event is also transmitted. The masked video on one hand maintains the privacy of the elderly people and on the other hand it helps the administrators to diagnose the problem accurately. Masked video is also helpful to provide specific initial first aid. In order to ensure timely help, the system receives acknowledgement for the sent emergency call. Some of the elderly people desire to be checked on a periodic basis. Our system gives the administrators a facility to check the state of the person at any time, which gives the elderly person a sense of safety and mental satisfaction.

AB - Elderly people are the most growing segment of the population. Most of the elderly people like to live an independent life at their own homes in a familiar environment. Living alone is not always safe, and often emergency situations like a fall and unconsciousness occur. We present an ambient assistant living system Altcare, based on static network video cameras. The Altcare automatically learns the common events and their location. Furthermore it detects the emergency situations happening with elderly people. In case of some emergency situations, the Altcare first confirms it with the monitored person. In case of a positive response or no response at all, the emergency situation is notified to the responsible persons, in order to get timely and effective help. Along with personal information and a short medical history of the elderly person, a patch of masked video showing the emergency event is also transmitted. The masked video on one hand maintains the privacy of the elderly people and on the other hand it helps the administrators to diagnose the problem accurately. Masked video is also helpful to provide specific initial first aid. In order to ensure timely help, the system receives acknowledgement for the sent emergency call. Some of the elderly people desire to be checked on a periodic basis. Our system gives the administrators a facility to check the state of the person at any time, which gives the elderly person a sense of safety and mental satisfaction.

KW - Elderly people

KW - Emergency

KW - Fall detection

KW - Monitoring

KW - Vision-based

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77954407956&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.8878

DO - 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.8878

M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:77954407956

SN - 9789639799899

T3 - 2010 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Pervasive Health 2010

BT - 2010 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

Y2 - 22 March 2010 through 25 March 2010

ER -