A Smartphone Based Residential Healthcare Gateway

• Main Authors: Chung-Bin Shiu, 徐崇彬
• Other Authors: Jiunn-Ru Lai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48167680590824556176

碩士 === 國立高雄應用科技大學 === 電機工程系博碩士班 === 103 === Recently, the aging problem of population becomes serious in Taiwan. The burden of caregivers is increasing. One of the major health risks among elderly people is the sudden fall without noticing. By the way, most of the elderly people has a variety of chronic diseases and the process of their taking medicine could be improperly. In this thesis, we present a smartphone based residential healthcare gateway in order to reach the remote health care for the elderly, such as fall detection and taking medicine problem, and reduce the burden of caregiver. We use an Android based smart phone as the gateway platform. We build an elderly healthcare application witch fulfills the home health care functions. A wearable sensor device for monitoring the activities of elderly people is also proposed. The gateway can send an alert to the remote server, when the accident of fall happens with help of the sensor device. With collected the information of the elderly daily life, we can achieve the purpose of remote health care and reducing the burden of caregivers. The future work includes reducing the false alarming by using multiple fall-detecting mechanisms, and combining different type of monitoring methods in this remote care system.