Ambient orchestration in assisted environment

Proceedings of the First IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Adaptive and DependAble Mission-and bUsiness-critical mobile Systems (ADAMUS 2007, Helsinki, Finnland, 2007

Elder people are becoming a predominant aspect of our societies. As such, solutions both efficacious and cost-effective need to be sought. This paper proposes a service-oriented infrastructure approach to this problem. We propose an open and integrated service infrastructure to orchestrate all the available resources (smart devices, professional carers, informal carers) to help elder or disabled people. Main characteristic of our design is the explicitly support of dynamically available service providers such as ...

2011 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Communications, Antennas and Electronic Systems (COMCAS 2011), 2011

Ambient Assisted Living is an intelligent system of assistance that can help senior citizens to improve their quality of life, stay healthier, and extend their lifespan, thus enabling them to expand their active and creative participation in the community. The system provides an interactive environment for people with special needs, based on ubiquitous sensing, individual-environment interaction, context awareness, and learning information systems. It provides a full cycle of processes, including sensing the individual's activity and behavior, preprocessing of sensors data, information aggregation, reasoning, and interaction with the individual and with external factors such as relatives and care services. The system is based on ambient intelligence, i.e. its infrastructure is pervasive, with a large number of distributed devices that communicate between themselves as well as with centralized services.

Ambient-Assisted Living (AAL) is currently an important research and development area, mainly due to the rapidly aging society, the increasing cost of health care, and the growing importance that individuals place on living independently. The general goal of AAL solutions is to apply ambient-assisted intelligence to enable people with specific demands (e.g. handicapped or elderly) to live in their preferred environment longer by tools (i.e. smart objects, mobile and wearable sensors, intelligent devices) being sensitive and responsive to the presence of people and their actions. The research describes the design and development of a novel service-oriented system architecture where different smart objects and sensors are combined to offer ambient-assisted living intelligence to older people. The design stage is driven by a user-centred approach to define an interoperable architecture and human-oriented principles to create usable products and well-accepted services. Such architecture...

2015 1st International Conference on Telematics and Future Generation Networks (TAFGEN), 2015

Due to the complexity issu heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Network ap limited reusability, non-scalability, tight platform and application, a new middlew introduced to solve these problems. A d framework such as Service Oriented Archit definitely resolve these issues. SOA framework complexity lower layer to the application pro create modular programming that can platforms. This paper aims to provide the middleware that supports heterogeneous servi and Ambient Assisted Living (SHAAL) applica

2000

European population is aging and the current social and health care models will be soon unable to cope with this expected demographic situation. The increased demands on quality services make necessary a change of mind in the way these services are going to be provided in a near future Disabled and elderly people are two groups that can be specially

2009

As a result of the increment of population in countries of Europe, a lot of efforts from European Authorities are coming from. In our research we want to bring forward a suite of developments related to build a ubiquitous AAL (Ambient Assisted Living) environment. We consider that recent approaches are based on ad-hoc technologies so its application is in this context isolated just in one domain of application. Our approach addresses to a reliable services platform for heterogeneous devices integration. On this basis we want to consider as well, the underlying benefits that a Service-oriented platform is giving to us in our Ambient Assisted Living Applications.

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… in Ubiquitous Environments (AIM-CU), 30th …, 2007

The Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) paradigm, based on the Ambient Intelligence concept, is devoted to provide independence and safety to people with sensory, motor or cognitive disabilities that live autonomously. In order to be supportive for all type of users, AAL implementations have to guarantee adaptable user interaction, reliability, safety and privacy. Consequently, the underlying Ubiquitous Computing technologies must be designed and tested having these requirements in mind. In addition, these environments must be universally accessible and available. For this reason, we studied, tested and proposed the adoption of the Universal Remote Console standard middleware, created for this kind of applications. This paper presents various performance experiments to test the suitability of the Universal Control Hub implementation of URC. The main goal was to evaluate whether the response times are acceptable when the system is developed over small portable devices, which is the most natural scenario for AAL. The promising results obtained allow trying more complex and demanding implementations that include the dynamic creation of adaptive accessible user interfaces to control and share multiple local devices or services.

Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB 2010), 2010

This paper aims to present a novel architecture for the indoors Ambient Assisted Living domain. This domain synthesizes features from the home-based e-health and ambient intelligence scientific areas. The HERA system addresses mainly the needs of elderly in the early stages of the Alzheimer disease aiming to improve the quality of their home life and extend its duration. Other user categories are elderly suffering from cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. The novelty of this architecture is the use of the TV and Set-Top-Box probably already existing in a user's home (and the remote control with which the user is familiar) providing services from an application server integrating agent technology-based personal assistance.