EHEALTH SMART HOME ENVIRONMENT SERVICE PLATFORM - Enabling Remote Monitoring and Service Composition through Social Media

Abstract

Demographic changes with the growth of elderly populations implies a need of developing efficient technology tools in order for the patients to stay in their own home for as long time as possible feeling safe and secured, and where the medical follow up can be achieved by remote home monitoring equipment. The lack of actual international standards has the consequence of proprietary solutions being used by vendors, making interoperability difficult. On the other hand, social media has become an integral part of modern society and has changed the way people interact with one another. It can potentially be extended to support well-being at home as well. In this paper we argue that social media have the potential to play an important role in remote home monitoring and remote service composition for provisioning health-care-related services in the future. An overview of a proposed platform based on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm for interoperability between different devices is also presented.