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Smart Cities and Healthcare: A Systematic Review

“…Three articles were related to the promotion of healthy lifestyles, namely, physical activity for the general population [19,20,47] and two articles reporting the same project, [48,49], also aimed to promote physical activity, but for older adults, and therefore were also related to active ageing.…”

“…Finally, [48,49] proposed a platform to promote physical activity for older adults through the suggestion of routes/paths intended to meet the individuals' requirements in terms of physical activity, personal preferences, and health conditions without disrupting their routines. The choice of paths was made by health professionals by taking into account the individuals' health history to determine which level of activity was adequate and what kind of exercises should be recommended.…”

“…Data from smart city infrastructure [16,19,25,[29][30][31]48,49,52] Data provided by sensors inside vehicles [28,51] Data provided by video cameras [50,56] Data provided by gas sensors [37] Geo-tagged social media data [34][35][36]56] Data collected by online questionnaire [17,33] Data provided by lifestyle monitoring devices: Location [16,21,30,31,39,40,43,45,[48][49][50]55] Activity [18,20,24,31,41,42,48,49 [47] Finally, two articles reported on the use of social media [38,60] and one article, [22], reported on the development of an ambulance robot equipped with an AED. Using multiple sensors for navigation (vision and range sensors) this robot might be able to navigate from a point to a given destination without losing the correct path or hitting obstacles [22].…”

“…In terms of maturity level, different development stages were identified (Figure 4): eight articles proposed concepts for further development [18,25,29,32,36,40,46,50]; two articles [32,41] related to the same project reported on the ongoing activities to elicit the requirements using an interactive design approach (i.e., 35 care receivers were actively involved in all phases of the project to validate the data detection and intervention services); eight articles proposed theoretical models and applied simulation techniques to validate them [19,23,35,44,52,53,58,59] (in some cases, real data were used such as from the London Ambulance Service [53] or data available for the 27,775 citizens living in Copenhagen [58]); eight articles defined architectures [24,27,31,40,48,49,55,56], and some of them were validated (e.g., some of the components of the architecture were implemented for its validation [24] or a simulation of a use case was performed for the conceptual validation of the architecture [56]); 14 articles presented prototypes that were developed to demonstrate the feasibility of the concepts [16,17,21,22,28,30,33,34,37,…”

“…Copenhagen [58]); eight articles defined architectures [24,27,31,40,48,49,55,56], and some of them were validated (e.g., some of the components of the architecture were implemented for its validation [24] or a simulation of a use case was performed for the conceptual validation of the architecture [56]); 14 articles presented prototypes that were developed to demonstrate the feasibility of the concepts [16,17,21,22,28,30,33,34,37,47,51,54,57,60]; and four articles reported on prototypes that were assessed by real users [20,38,43,45].…”