MULTI-MODAL PLATFORM FOR IN-HOME HEALTHCARE MONITORING (EMUTEM)

Wided Souidene, Dan Istrate, Hamid Medjahed, François Delavault, Jérôme Boudy, Jean-Louis Baldinger, Imad Belfeki, François Steenkeste

2009

Abstract

This paper describes a multimodal platform dedicated to in-home healthcare monitoring. This platform consists in three heterogeneous and complementary systems which are designed to provide a sense of safety and connectedness for those being monitored. In this article we present a detailed description of the multiple sensors used to remotely monitor elderly or a patient health. These are: a set of microphones suitably placed in the home, a wearable device and a set of infrared sensors. This platform is remotely used by the medical staff in order to help them to take the right decision about the patient and/or elderly situation. It has a couple of great advantages. First, its good acceptance by the end-users since it is less intrusive than other healthcare systems. Second, it is reliable and robust since it performs the fusion of outputs of three complementary healthcare systems.

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Souidene W., Istrate D., Medjahed H., Delavault F., Boudy J., Baldinger J., Belfeki I. and Steenkeste F. (2009). MULTI-MODAL PLATFORM FOR IN-HOME HEALTHCARE MONITORING (EMUTEM) . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-63-0, pages 381-386. DOI: 10.5220/0001780603810386


in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf09,
author={Wided Souidene and Dan Istrate and Hamid Medjahed and François Delavault and Jérôme Boudy and Jean-Louis Baldinger and Imad Belfeki and François Steenkeste},
title={MULTI-MODAL PLATFORM FOR IN-HOME HEALTHCARE MONITORING (EMUTEM)},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={381-386},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001780603810386},
isbn={978-989-8111-63-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2009)
TI - MULTI-MODAL PLATFORM FOR IN-HOME HEALTHCARE MONITORING (EMUTEM)
SN - 978-989-8111-63-0
AU - Souidene W.
AU - Istrate D.
AU - Medjahed H.
AU - Delavault F.
AU - Boudy J.
AU - Baldinger J.
AU - Belfeki I.
AU - Steenkeste F.
PY - 2009
SP - 381
EP - 386
DO - 10.5220/0001780603810386