title: Minimal hardware Bluetooth tracking for long-term at-home elder supervision.
abstract: The ability to automatically detect the location of an elder within their own home is a significant enabler of remote elder supervision and interaction applications. This location information is typically generated via a myriad of sensors throughout the home environment. Even with high sensor redundancy, there are still situations where traditional elder monitoring systems are unable to resolve the location of the elder. This work develops a minimal infrastructure radio-frequency localisation system for long-term elder location tracking. An RFID room-labelling technique is employed and with it, the localisation system developed in this work is shown to exhibit superior performance to more traditional localisation systems in realistic long-term deployments.
authors.affiliation: Strategic Research in Advanced Geotechnologies (StratAG), Ireland. dkelly@eeng.nuim.ie
authors.forename: Damian
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kelly
authors.forename: Sean
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: McLoone
authors.forename: Ronan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Farrell
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000465:Algorithms; D001331:Automation; D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000295:instrumentation*; D003201:Computers; D004867:Equipment Design / Q000295:instrumentation; D006299:Health Services for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000379:methods*; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*