Alarm communication network to help carers of the elderly for safety purposes: a survey of a project

Over years, radical changes in engineering technology have taken place due to greatly improved instrumentation, enhanced computing power, new sensors and upgraded transmission mediums making it possible to achieve in the fiel d what once could only be done on laboratory models. In daily life, the use of an active self-testing instrumentation endowed with a self-diagnostic c apability built into the structural fabric of a machine permits us to monit or the initiation of breakdown, corrosion and erosion. This has become part icularly important in such means of transportation as planes, boats and aut omobiles where advanced instrumentation, signal processing and pattern reco gnition systems operate in fairly conventional structures. By capitalizing on the technological progress in the field of instrumentation and data proc essing, help can be contemplated for elderly people in nursing homes throug h detection of abnormal situations. The continued assistance to elderly peo ple is achieved by utilizing a technological system respectful of the elder ly's privacy and operating without their active participation.