TY - GEN
T1 - Using Camera Array to Detect Elderly Falling and Distribute Alerting Media for Smart Home Care
AU - Hu, Chih Lin
AU - Bamrung, Chitrin
AU - Kamintra, Wasita
AU - Ruengittinun, Somchoke
AU - Mongkolwat, Pattanasak
AU - Hui, Lin
AU - Lo, Shih Hsiang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/10
Y1 - 2019/10
N2 - Towards an aging society, applying information and communication technologies to advance elderly's home care services to be smart, i.e., smart home care, becomes a significant research theme. Considering falling is specially dangerous to the elderly, immediately detecting the elderly's fall and alerting exigency events to whom have concerns about, e.g., hospitals, healthcare center and family members, is crucial. In this paper, we take advantage of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology to develop smart home care services and help to distribute instant information to remote users outside the home domain. We propose a camera-built peer-to-peer (P2P) network system on which a camera array will cooperate in detecting falling, broadcasting alert events and distributing captured media streams in an elderly activity area. Multiple cameras with Wi-Fi and IoT functions can organize an in-house P2P network where cameras can publish, subscribe and relay media content. In addition, a gateway device in charge will send that information to the remote user. For a proof-of-concept implementation, our study develops an application-level prototype based on the P2P networking techniques. A practical scenario of elderly fall detection and alerting media distribution services in elder living environments is demonstrated to highlight the functionality of this system architecture for smart home care services.
AB - Towards an aging society, applying information and communication technologies to advance elderly's home care services to be smart, i.e., smart home care, becomes a significant research theme. Considering falling is specially dangerous to the elderly, immediately detecting the elderly's fall and alerting exigency events to whom have concerns about, e.g., hospitals, healthcare center and family members, is crucial. In this paper, we take advantage of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology to develop smart home care services and help to distribute instant information to remote users outside the home domain. We propose a camera-built peer-to-peer (P2P) network system on which a camera array will cooperate in detecting falling, broadcasting alert events and distributing captured media streams in an elderly activity area. Multiple cameras with Wi-Fi and IoT functions can organize an in-house P2P network where cameras can publish, subscribe and relay media content. In addition, a gateway device in charge will send that information to the remote user. For a proof-of-concept implementation, our study develops an application-level prototype based on the P2P networking techniques. A practical scenario of elderly fall detection and alerting media distribution services in elder living environments is demonstrated to highlight the functionality of this system architecture for smart home care services.
KW - Fall detection
KW - health care
KW - internet of things (IoT)
KW - media content distribution
KW - peer-to-peer networking
KW - smart home
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85094669593
U2 - 10.1109/ICICE49024.2019.9117311
DO - 10.1109/ICICE49024.2019.9117311
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85094669593
T3 - Proceedings of the 2019 8th International Conference on Innovation, Communication and Engineering, ICICE 2019
SP - 98
EP - 101
BT - Proceedings of the 2019 8th International Conference on Innovation, Communication and Engineering, ICICE 2019
A2 - Chang, Shoou-Jinn
A2 - Young, Sheng-Joue
A2 - Lam, Artde Donald Kin-Tak
A2 - Ji, Liang-Wen
A2 - Lu, Hao-Ying
A2 - Prior, Stephen D.
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 8th International Conference on Innovation, Communication and Engineering, ICICE 2019
Y2 - 25 October 2019 through 30 October 2019
ER -