Dementia assistive system as a dense network

TL;DR

This paper presents a dense network-based dementia assistive system utilizing sensors and devices, addressing network performance issues caused by high sensor density and reviewing existing communication protocols for different data transmission rates.

Contribution

It introduces a networked dementia assistive system and discusses protocols to mitigate performance degradation in dense sensor networks.

Findings

Analyzes sensor network protocols for dementia care systems.

Highlights challenges of dense sensor deployment.

Reviews communication techniques for low and high data rates.

Abstract

As elderly population increases, portion of dementia patients becomes larger. Thus social cost of caring dementia patients has been a major concern to many nations. This article introduces a dementia assistive system operated by various sensors and devices installed in body area and activity area of patients. Since this system is served based on a network which includes a number of nodes, it requires techniques to reduce the network performance degradation caused by densely composed sensors and devices. This article introduces existing protocols for communications of sensors and devices at both low rate and high rate transmission.