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Mobihealth: mobile health services based on body area networks
In this chapter we describe the concept of MobiHealth and the approach developed during the MobiHealth project (MobiHealth, 2002). The concept was to bring together the technologies of Body Area Networks (BANs), wireless broadband communications and wearable medical devices to provide mobile healthcare services for patients and health professionals. These technologies enable remote patient care services such as management of chronic conditions and detection of health emergencies. Because the patient is free to move anywhere whilst wearing the MobiHealth BAN, patient mobility is maximised. The vision is that patients can enjoy enhanced freedom and quality of life through avoidance or reduction of hospital stays. For the health services it means that pressure on overstretched hospital services can be alleviated
An Advanced Home ElderCare Service
With the increase of welfare cost all over the developed world, there is a need to resort to new technologies
that could help reduce this enormous cost and provide some quality eldercare services. This paper presents a
middleware-level solution that integrates monitoring and emergency detection solutions with networking solutions. The proposed system enables efficient integration between a variety of sensors and actuators deployed
at home for emergency detection and provides a framework for creating and managing rescue teams willing
to assist elders in case of emergency situations. A prototype of the proposed system was designed and implemented. Results were obtained from both computer simulations and a real-network testbed. These results show that the proposed system can help overcome some of the current problems and help reduce the enormous cost of eldercare service
GNSS-free outdoor localization techniques for resource-constrained IoT architectures : a literature review
Large-scale deployments of the Internet of Things (IoT) are adopted for performance
improvement and cost reduction in several application domains. The four main IoT application
domains covered throughout this article are smart cities, smart transportation, smart healthcare, and
smart manufacturing. To increase IoT applicability, data generated by the IoT devices need to be
time-stamped and spatially contextualized. LPWANs have become an attractive solution for outdoor
localization and received significant attention from the research community due to low-power,
low-cost, and long-range communication. In addition, its signals can be used for communication
and localization simultaneously. There are different proposed localization methods to obtain the
IoT relative location. Each category of these proposed methods has pros and cons that make them
useful for specific IoT systems. Nevertheless, there are some limitations in proposed localization
methods that need to be eliminated to meet the IoT ecosystem needs completely. This has motivated
this work and provided the following contributions: (1) definition of the main requirements and
limitations of outdoor localization techniques for the IoT ecosystem, (2) description of the most
relevant GNSS-free outdoor localization methods with a focus on LPWAN technologies, (3) survey
the most relevant methods used within the IoT ecosystem for improving GNSS-free localization
accuracy, and (4) discussion covering the open challenges and future directions within the field.
Some of the important open issues that have different requirements in different IoT systems include
energy consumption, security and privacy, accuracy, and scalability. This paper provides an overview
of research works that have been published between 2018 to July 2021 and made available through
the Google Scholar database.5311-8814-F0ED | Sara Maria da Cruz Maia de Oliveira PaivaN/
Supporting active and healthy aging with advanced robotics integrated in smart environment
The technological advances in the robotic and ICT fields represent an effective solution to address specific societal problems to support ageing and independent life. One of the key factors for these technologies is the integration of service robotics for optimising social services and improving quality of life of the elderly population. This chapter aims to underline the barriers of the state of the art, furthermore the authors present their concrete experiences to overcome these barriers gained at the RoboTown Living Lab of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna within past and current projects. They analyse and discuss the results in order to give recommendations based on their experiences. Furthermore, this work highlights the trend of development from stand-alone solutions to cloud computing architecture, describing the future research directions
Review of technologyâsupported multimodal solutions for people with dementia
Funding Information: This research was partially funded by FAITH project (H2020?SC1?DTH?2019?875358), CARELINK project (AAL?CALL?2016?049), and Funda??o para a Ci?ncia e Tecnologia through the program UIDB/00066/2020 (CTS?Center of Technology and Systems).Acknowledgments: The authors acknowledge the European Commission for its support and partial funding; the partners of the research project FAITH project (H2020?SC1?DTH?2019?875358); and CARELINK, AAL?CALL?2016?049 funded by AAL JP and co?funded by the European Commission and National Funding Authorities of Ireland, Belgium, Portugal, and Switzerland. Partial support also comes from Funda??o para a Ci?ncia e Tecnologia through the program UIDB/00066/2020 (CTS?Center of Technology and Systems). Funding Information: Acknowledgments: The authors acknowledge the European Commission for its support and partial funding; the partners of the research project FAITH project (H2020âSC1âDTHâ2019â875358); and CARELINK, AALâCALLâ2016â049 funded by AAL JP and coâfunded by the European Commission and National Funding Authorities of Ireland, Belgium, Portugal, and Switzerland. Partial support also comes from Fundação para a CiĂȘncia e Tecnologia through the program UIDB/00066/2020 (CTSâCenter of Technology and Systems). Funding Information: Funding: This research was partially funded by FAITH project (H2020âSC1âDTHâ2019â875358), CARELINK project (AALâCALLâ2016â049), and Fundação para a CiĂȘncia e Tecnologia through the program UIDB/00066/2020 (CTSâCenter of Technology and Systems). Publisher Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.The number of people living with dementia in the world is rising at an unprecedented rate, and no country will be spared. Furthermore, neither decisive treatment nor effective medicines have yet become effective. One potential alternative to this emerging challenge is utilizing supportive technologies and services that not only assist people with dementia to do their daily activities safely and independently, but also reduce the overwhelming pressure on their caregivers. Thus, for this study, a systematic literature review is conducted in an attempt to gain an overview of the latest findings in this field of study and to address some commercially available supportive technologies and services that have potential application for people living with dementia. To this end, 30 potential supportive technologies and 15 active supportive services are identified from the literature and related websites. The technologies and services are classified into different classes and subclasses (according to their functionalities, capabilities, and features) aiming to facilitate their understanding and evaluation. The results of this work are aimed as a base for designing, integrating, developing, adapting, and customizing potential multimodal solutions for the specific needs of vulnerable people of our societies, such as those who suffer from different degrees of dementia.publishersversionpublishe
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