Embedded Sensors in Monitoring of Human Daily Activities

Dusan Simsik^1, , Alena Galajdova¹, Robert Rakay¹ and Daniela Onofrejova²

¹Department of Automation, Control and Human-Machines Interactions, Mechanical Engineering Faculty, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia

²Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Mechanical Engineering Faculty, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia

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Dusan Simsik, Alena Galajdova, Robert Rakay and Daniela Onofrejova. Embedded Sensors in Monitoring of Human Daily Activities. Journal of Automation and Control. 2015; 3(3):48-52. doi: 10.12691/automation-3-3-1

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to describe some results from experiments with embedded sensors using inertial sensors as wearable sensors. Authors were involved in last years in the development of ICT services for monitoring of elderly persons daily activities monitoring, and their home environment status monitoring and control as well.Main goal of the current research interest is to add embedded sensors to mentioned services for monitoring of the critical physiological parameters to get more information about users’ behavior and critical situations.

Keywords:
wearable sensors social service inertial sensor experiments

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