A Study of Selection and Remote Monitoring of Health Status Information in Outdoor Environment

Abstract

In aging societies, daily monitoring of health status of the elderly people becomes important for maintaining quality of life and preventing accidents. Many researches of monitoring health status for elderly people in limited areas have been done. For continuous health monitoring of elderly people freely moving in outdoor environments, it is necessary to use low power consumption and wide area wireless communication network system at low costs. Therefore, we propose to use LPWA which is a general term of standards for the low power consumption and wide area wireless network systems being developed in recent years. In this study, we select plurality kinds of information which is considered effective for monitoring health status of elderly people and examine the available capacity for sharing these pieces of information using LPWA wireless network.