title: PERSEIA: a biomedical wireless sensor network to support healthcare delivery for the elderly and chronically ill.
abstract: This paper presents a system based on ambient intelligence (AmI) to foster home care monitoring of senior citizens and chronically ill patients. The most important fact addressed in this research is the development of non intrusive and easy to use sensing devices. According to this, medical tests do not need user collaboration to perform them, neither powering on and off the sensor, starting the measure, configuring communications, etc.
authors.affiliation: Bioeng. & Telemedicine Res. Centre, Tech. Univ. of Madrid-Spain. sjimenez@gbt.tfo.upm.es
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jiménez-Fernández
authors.forename: Alvaro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Araujo-Pinto
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cobo-Sánchez de Rojas
authors.forename: Francisco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: del Pozo-Guerrero
authors.forename: Octavio
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Nieto-Taladriz
authors.forename: Paula
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: de Toledo-Heras
authors.forename: José Manuel
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Moya-Fernández
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000295:instrumentation*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation*; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013686:Telemetry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014159:Transducers