温度センサを用いた就寝時見守りベッドシステムの開発

抄録

Currently, Japan is rapidly becoming aging society, and 28 % to total population are 65 years old and over. With increasing elderly population, the increase of nuclear family causes the increase of elderly households and the elderly living alone. A social demand to improve the substantial home care of the elderly is expanding. Numerous information technology (IT) base applications in home care have been proposed. Most of those applications are aimed at an intensive management in care. Contrary to this tendency, we believe that while high technology may be necessary for medical practice, mental support is more important in medical care. In this paper, we developed a patient monitoring bed as a system to monitor the patient's sleeping condition without invading their privacy. The system can grasp a patient body temperature as a physiological data and can display the posture of the patient using the temperature distribution data.