Developing of the Monitoring System for Single Living Elderly in Welfare Techno House Mizusawa

Abstract

The concept of an experimental house called Welfare Techno House Mizusawa is to develop the life supporting system for the elderly without attaching any sensors for the human body. Since 1998, we have been tested suitable sensors which reflect the health condition and normal daily life. The human activity measurement based on installed pyroeletric sensors at individual room and electrocardiogram obtained form the electro conductive sheet were used. For the preventive medical point of view, the long-term monitoring were performed both the experiment house and elderly own residents.