Innovative Information Services by Smart Multimedia Systems for Senior and Disabled Citizens

Introduction

With an annual increase in the number of elderly people and a scarcity of competent workers, governments around the world may turn to older people to care for wearable technologies to fill the gap. It is an electronic technology of smart devices embedded in our body. This kind of technology is now used for monitoring the health care. Today a vast number of health issues are increasingly with unprecedented rate throughout the world due to the increasing number of chronic diseases especially in older population. To monitor the health care, the wearable technology may have different forms like socks, wireless bandages, watch, smart glasses or tattoo from the skin and smart textiles. These smart technologies are more helpful for older people to live independently, safely and happily.

Wireless sensor network provides a smart health solution for enabling computerized, continuous, physical signals and performing data processing operations. There are some important parameters such as heart rate, body temperature, respiration rate, blood pressure etc., which are captured in real time activity signals and analyzed by the appropriate connected sensors. There are various kinds of sensors for monitoring the physiological parameters that have been shown in the following table.