Abstract:
As the world’s aged population grows many
governments are looking to remote healthcare
monitoring solutions. It is certainly cheaper to keep the
elderly and infirm in their own homes rather than in
aged-care facilities. However will these remote and
wireless monitoring devices deliver what they
promise? The medical profession will need strong
evidence before they embrace such techniques. In this
paper the authors describe the building of a remote
monitoring prototype which uses Motes, a PDA and a
network management application to show that
commodity-based hardware may provide one answer
to the problem of remotely monitoring people in their
own homes. Privacy and security issues associated
with such monitoring are also discussed.
