Pervasive sensors networks coexist with users offering them services transparently, without the need for users to interact directly. This work defines an architecture that allows the creation of products and services to provide home automation functionalities for a large segment of population. A platform, on a low cost device and high-capacity computing, as basis of a transparent and indistinguishable sensors network has been designed. This includes simple configuration methods and it is capable of accommodating multiple services, from automation of blinds, lighting controls or security, to mechanisms for monitoring a patient health. A medication reminder service and warning, completely transparent to the user, has been the first developed application. This service plays, at the configured time, a reminder through the speakers. The user will close the event, simply performing the action (take the pill), thanks to the information transmitted by a device installed in the medicines drawer. Otherwise, if he forgets, the system will remind it to the user from time to time.
Positional plagiocephaly, braquicephaly and scaphocephaly are cranial deformations that occur on infants during 4 to 18 months, heads of babies with these deformations are asymmetric and in severe cases they might develop problems with sight and hearing senses as well as chewing and learning skills. The treatment for these deformations in average and severe cases is the use of a custom made helmet that allows the cranium to recover its symmetry; the amount of correction made depends on the total daily hours of usage, becoming a key metric. Currently to know how many hours the helmet is used, parents are www.macrothink.org/npa 73 Network Protocols and Algorithms ISSN 1943-3581 2016 asked every month the total number of hours in average, but this is not an accurate way to register this time of usage. Knowing this value would allow giving a better follow up for each patient and could also estimate the duration of treatment for each case. This work describes an experience based on biomedical and telematics engineering discipline combination, which allows defining a treatment procedure for children between 4 and 18 months old to the diagnosis, helmet design, manufacturing and tracking in a way of registering the adherence during the whole treatment.
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