| Title |
An identification of optimized energy usage factors and monitoring System development for safety identification for elderly living |
| Authors |
Kim, Hosik ; Cha, Youna ; Chin, Sangyoon |
| DOI |
http://dx.doi.org/10.6106/KJCEM.2014.15.4.039 |
| Keywords |
Elderly Living Alone ; AMR ; Safety Identification Monitoring |
| Abstract |
The speed of aging society is increasingly getting faster in Korea. Currently, there are over one million elderly living alone, which represents more than 19% of the total elderly in Korea. Although various policies and research have been implemented for caring the elderly living alone, there have been obvious limitations in realization of the caring system due to inconvenience, privacy violation, difficult operation and maintenance. Therefore, the objective of this study is to develop a method and a prototype system to monitor safety of elderly living alone by using energy usage information of automatic meter reading device. The proposed system is expected to improve or resolve the existing limitations and to provide 24 hour monitoring and early detection of death for the elderly living alone without adding staffs for operation and maintenance in a more effective and economic way. |