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Design and Implementation of Wireless RFID Assistant System for Activity Monitoring of Elderly Living Alone  

Jung, Kyung-Kwon (Department of Electronics Engineering, Hallym University)
Lee, Yong-Gu (Department of Radiological Technology, Hallym College)
Kim, Yong-Joong (Department of Electronics Engineering, Hallym University)
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전자공학회논문지 IE / v.46, no.3, 2009 , pp. 55-61 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper describes an assistant system for elders who live alone. The developed system is composed of a wearable RFID system, a gateway system, and server system. The wearable RFID system is installed in glove. The wearable RFID system can be considered as a wireless sensor network which has a sink node and sensor node with a RFID reader. The sensor node can read RFID tags on the various objects used in daily living such as furniture, medicines, sugar and salt bottles, and ok. The sensor node transmits wireless packets to the sink node. The sink node sends the received packet immediately to a server system via a gateway system. The gateway provides users with audio-visual information of objects. The server system is composed of a database server and a web server. The data from each wearable RFID system is collected into a database, and then the data are processed to visualize the measurement of daily living activities of users. The processed data can be provided for someone who wants to know about user's daily living patterns in house such as family, caregivers, and medical crew.
Keywords
RFID; RFID glove; wireless sensor network; assistant system; elderly living alone;
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