Mobile Telemedicine System for Elderly Homecare

• Main Authors: Yauri Hartoyo, 姚子盛
• Other Authors: Yung-Chung Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2z67u4

碩士 === 國立臺北科技大學 === 電腦與通訊研究所 === 102 === Most of countries have a problem with growing population of elderly. The elderly needs young people to take care of them. However, it is hard to do in these modern days where productive peoples are busy more than ever. Telemedicine system is a solution for this problem. Telemedicine system allows medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic devices. With a telemedicine system, young people can know the situation of the elderly remotely. In this thesis, we create a telemedicine system for elderly homecare using desktop application, IP camera and Android device. The computer will be connected to an IP camera and receives real-time image of elderly current situation. Computer has an application for analyzing the image using fall detection system with human shape and shadow elimination method. Whenever fall event detected on the image, a notification will be sent to Android device through a Node.js server and Google Cloud Messaging service. When notification arrives on Android device, user can see the image where fall event detected and be able to connect directly to IP camera to watch the real-time situation.