WiSPH: A Wireless Sensor Network-Based Home Care Monitoring System

This paper presents a system based on WSN technology capable of monitoring heart rate and the rate of motion of seniors within their homes. The system is capable of remotely alerting specialists, caretakers or family members via a smartphone of rapid physiological changes due to falls, tachycardia o...

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Main Authors: Pedro Magaña-Espinoza, Raúl Aquino-Santos, Néstor Cárdenas-Benítez, José Aguilar-Velasco, César Buenrostro-Segura, Arthur Edwards-Block, Aldo Medina-Cass
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-04-01
Series:Sensors
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/14/4/7096