2001 Volume 13 Issue 4 Pages 112-119
In the aged society like Japan, some of the elderly cannot receive the enough care, because the relative number of a caregiver is reduced. To resolve this problem, we proposed the life support system which is called “e-house”, using an information network technology. Since the information infrastructure was different according to the living environment of the elderly, we had to develop the method to cancell the digital divide. We constructed the home network system which adopted a power-line network. The result of the experiment of communication using power-line network shows the power-line network has enough band width to transfer the biomedical signals like an ECG. In addition, we developed the WWW based tele-monitoring system for the elderly. As the result of experiments, we confirmed that this Web-based monitoring system is effective for the tele-monitoring of the health condition of the elderly.
