The method proposed in this paper is a multi-agent system that is used for health monitoring of elderly
people in indoor environments. Agent based technology is helpful in healthcare domain. These agents can
reside in one system and they can be invoked based upon the need by any of the systems that are
connected through a network. Thus this agent based approach reduces the need for the presence of the
healthcare system in each PC. The amount of data gathered is also huge in health monitoring. The
proposed system includes a method of data reduction and hence the amount of data that has to be stored is
minimized.