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With the rapid growth of elderly population, u-healthcare service combined with advanced wireless networking technology is gaining popularity. The advance in medical sensor technology has boasted up the u-healthcare market potential. However, the global ...

Low duty-cycle (LDC) algorithm is interference mitigation technique, which can reduce the average interference to the existing radio systems by lowering pulse repetition interval or pulse occupation time. Moreover, LDC algorithm is also low power ...

Ambulances and emergency vehicles (buses and taxis as well), if equipped with wireless devices, can be exploited to harvest medical data during unexpected events and also on a daily basis, from all those patients that require a constant monitoring of ...

Recent Advances in technology has led to the development of small, intelligent, wearable sensors capable of remotely performing critical health monitoring tasks and then transmitting patient's data back to health care centers over wireless medium. In ...

With age, injury, or disease, human memory can be significantly impaired. Current coping strategies range from simple aids such as post-it notes and calendars to, more recently, assistive devices which attempt to provide reminders at appropriate times, ...

In this paper, we consider a radio fingerprinting-based localization system for indoor motion capture applications. Fingerprinting allows target localization on the basis of radio-frequency measurements of the Received radio Signal Strength (RSS), ...

Obesity is a growing healthcare challenge in present days. Objective automated methods of food intake monitoring are necessary to face this challenge in future. A method for non-invasive monitoring of human food intake behavior by the evaluation of ...

The pulse transit time (PTT) is a parameter which can be used to characterize the functional state of the cardiovascular system. The PTT, which is closely connected to the blood pressure, can be derived from an electrocardiogram (ECG) and a ...

Smartphones today not only provide computing and communication capabilities but are also equipped with many sensors that enable new applications across several domains, namely healthcare, environmental monitoring, social networks, and transportation. In ...

In this paper, we introduce iResTrac, a mobile device application and service-oriented architecture for capturing and retrieving hospital resource information such as beds or ventilators. Our system leverages the continuing penetration of smartphones in ...

In this paper, we present a new algorithm that automatically classifies wandering patterns (or behaviors) of patients with Alzheimer's disease and other different types of dementia. Experimental results on a real-life dataset show that this algorithm ...

The primary challenges in deploying a wireless healthcare solution stem from real-time, distributed resource constraints, as well as stringent clinical requirements of reliability, safety, device interoperability, QoS guarantee, and privacy/security. ...