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Design and implementation of an unobtrusive sensor system to support incontinence care of elderly in nursing homes
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Incontinence is a very common condition among
nursing home residents. This not only leads to physical and
mental burden for the elderly residents, but also to an increased
workload for care personnel. In order to lower this imposed
workload, numerous technologies exist to support incontinence
care. These systems, however, are expensive for the
nursing homes and inconvenient for the residents. To solve
these problems, we propose a new sensor system now attached
to the bed that is able to monitor and detect incontinence
events. Using Bluetooth Low Energy and the time-based database
InfluxDB a prototype was built. The sensor data can be
stored in real-time and can be made available to other systems
for further processing. In future systems, security measures
can be added, and energy measurements can be done to make
the system fully portable.
Book: XXVIII International Scientific Conference Electronics - ET2019
Publication year:2019
Accessibility:Open