TY - GEN
T1 - Elderly Healthcare Data Protection Application for Ambient Assisted Living
AU - Tan, Qing
AU - El-Bendary, Nashwa
AU - Pivot, Frédérique C.
AU - Lam, Anthony
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The increasing aging of the population requires new kinds of social and medical intervention and the availability of different supportive services for elderly people. Falling is one of the events that usually occur to elderly persons with resultant morbidity ranging from soft injury through to fractures and possibly death. Due the fragility of the elderly persons, falls should be avoided at all costs. New applications and services have been developed allowing the elderly people to be continuously monitored, however an adequate response to the needs of the users will imply a high percentage of use for personal data and information. This article introduces the data protection rules that have to be considered in elderly healthcare facilities for protecting residents' privacy and sensible data that is being shared between persons and applications. Also, this article proposes an automatic video surveillance system for elderly protection via falls detection and prevention. The proposed system utilized the integration of motion detection sensors embedded in network cameras with smart mobile phones in order to develop a platform for pervasive fall detection and prevention. Moreover, the proposed system highlights the consideration of balance between the rights and legitimate concerns of elderly residents and the requirements of an efficient functioning in the healthcare facility.
AB - The increasing aging of the population requires new kinds of social and medical intervention and the availability of different supportive services for elderly people. Falling is one of the events that usually occur to elderly persons with resultant morbidity ranging from soft injury through to fractures and possibly death. Due the fragility of the elderly persons, falls should be avoided at all costs. New applications and services have been developed allowing the elderly people to be continuously monitored, however an adequate response to the needs of the users will imply a high percentage of use for personal data and information. This article introduces the data protection rules that have to be considered in elderly healthcare facilities for protecting residents' privacy and sensible data that is being shared between persons and applications. Also, this article proposes an automatic video surveillance system for elderly protection via falls detection and prevention. The proposed system utilized the integration of motion detection sensors embedded in network cameras with smart mobile phones in order to develop a platform for pervasive fall detection and prevention. Moreover, the proposed system highlights the consideration of balance between the rights and legitimate concerns of elderly residents and the requirements of an efficient functioning in the healthcare facility.
KW - elderly monitoring
KW - fall prevention
KW - healthcare data protection
KW - mobile technology
KW - motion sensing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84904643548&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-40597-6_17
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-40597-6_17
M3 - Published Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84904643548
SN - 9783642405969
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 196
EP - 203
BT - Advances in Security of Information and Communication Networks - 1st International Conference, SecNet 2013, Proceedings
T2 - 1st International Conference on Advances in Security of Information and Communication Networks, SecNet 2013
Y2 - 3 September 2013 through 5 September 2013
ER -