Development of wearable bath safety monitoring system for handicapped people

  • Hao Zhang*
  • , Jian Huang
  • , Weiguang Huo
  • , Chunjing Tao
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

With the development of society and progress of technology, people are concerned with their health more and more. Currently there are increasing number of handicapped people, which brings tremendous burden to the society and their families. For handicapped people, bathing is a big challenge because of disabilities and some dangers such as falling down or drowning which will cause severe consequence if not be dealt with in time. To alleviate the burden of society and their families as well as guarantee their safety during bathing, we propose an integrated wearable bath safety monitoring system. This system can detect both fall and drowning emergencies during bathing in real-time and alarm to remote monitoring center for help. The effectiveness of the propose safety monitoring system is confirmed by experiments.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2012 International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control, ICMIC 2012
Pages689-694
Number of pages6
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event2012 International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control, ICMIC 2012 - Wuhan, China
Duration: 24 Jun 201226 Jun 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings of 2012 International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control, ICMIC 2012

Conference

Conference2012 International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control, ICMIC 2012
Country/TerritoryChina
CityWuhan
Period24/06/1226/06/12

Keywords

  • Bath Safety Monitoring System
  • Drowning Detection
  • Fall Detection
  • Wearable

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