Abstract
The importance of research on new technologies that could be employed in care services for elderly and disabled persons is highlighted. Advantages of radar sensors, when applied for non-invasive monitoring of such persons in their home environment, are indicated. A need for comprehensible visualisation of the intermediate results of measurement data processing is justified. Capability of an impulse-radar-based system to provide information, being of crucial importance for medical or healthcare personnel, are investigated. An exemplary software interface, tailored for non-technical users, is proposed, and preliminary results of impulse-radar-based monitoring of human movements are demonstrated.
Highlights
The life expectancy has been growing in Europe for many years, while the healthy life expectancy has been slightly diminishing since the last decade of the XXth century
The importance of research on new technologies that could be employed in care services for elderly and disabled persons is highlighted
In particular: the capability of the impulse-radar-based system to provide data needed by the medical and healthcare personnel has been investigated and preliminary results of the monitoring of human movements, visualised by means of the software interface designed for non-technical users, have been demonstrated
Summary
The life expectancy has been growing in Europe for many years, while the healthy life expectancy has been slightly diminishing since the last decade of the XXth century (cf. http://www.healthy-lifeyears.eu/). The demand for research on new technologies that could be employed in monitoring systems supporting care services for such persons. The capability of those systems to detect dangerous events, such as person’s fall, is of key importance [1, 2]. Numerous attempts have been made to apply radar technology for monitoring of elderly and disabled persons (cf., for example, the documents [6 9]). They are mainly motivated by the conviction that this technology may be less intrusive, less cumbersome, and less invasive with respect to the home environment than existing solutions.
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