摘要：AbstractPC-based monitoring system for efficient use of small-scale day care centers for elderly people, whose feature is that the users live in the walking distance to it, has been developed. The developed System is composed of PCs with viewer software, network cameras, and a FTP server. In the system, images taken at the users’ house are transported to FTP server periodically, the software installed in PCs at day care centers are taken the related images from FTP servers periodically. The images are checked continuously by the staffs of the canter. Once something wrong occurs, then the staff goes to the user's house immediately and conducts the appropriate operations. The pre-registered persons, such as relatives of the users, can view the images through the Internet. If they find something wrong, then they can immediately notice that to the staff of the day care center. In this paper, the features of the developed monitoring system and an experiment conducted in a day care center, Koguma-kan, are described.
关键词：Elderly people care;Monitoring system, ;Network camera;Aging society;Day care center
