Using OSGi UPnP and Zigbee to Provide a Wireless Ubiquitous Home Healthcare Environment

Lin, Wen-Wei; Sheng, Yu-Hsiang

doi:10.1109/ubicomm.2008.42

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“…Communication is the foundation of providing telehealthcare in the smart home environment. There are many existing and emerging standards such as the IHE (integrating the healthcare enterprise) recommendations for information exchange (IHE 2012), and the very popular Zigbee (Zigbee Alliance 2012) that have been used in many smart environment projects (Lin and Sheng 2008;Fraile et al 2010).…”

Section: Telemedicine Communication Standardsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smart home technology for telemedicine and emergency management

2012

J Ambient Intell Human Comput

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With the ageing population, mobility is an important issue and it deters the elderlies to visit health clinics on a regular basis. Individuals with disabilities also face the same obstacles for their out-of-home medical visits. In addition, people living in remote areas often do not get the needed health care attention unless they are willing to spend the time, effort and cost to travel. Advances in information and telecommunication technologies have made telemedicine possible. Using the latest sensor technologies, a person's vital data can be collected in a smart home environment. The bio-information can then be transferred wirelessly or via the Internet to medical databases and the healthcare professionals. Using the appropriate sensing apparatus at a smart home setting, patients, elderlies and people with disabilities can have their health signals and information examined on a realtime and archival basis. Recovery process can be charted on a regular basis. Remote emergency alerts can be intercepted and responded quickly. Health deterioration can be monitored closely enabling corrective actions. Medical practitioners can therefore provide the necessary healthrelated services to more people. This paper surveys and compiles the state-of-the-art smart home technologies and telemedicine systems.

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Section: Telemedicine Communication Standardsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smart home technology for telemedicine and emergency management

2012

J Ambient Intell Human Comput

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“…Instead, the solution proposed by [10] is based on a Bluetooth Virtual Service component offering UPnP services to Bluetooth devices as if they were provided via Bluetooth. [11], [12] focus on ZigBee, with the objective of accessing ZigBee devices at multi-hop distance as if they were local UPnP devices. In particular, the UPnP-ZigBee Gateway (UZG) component creates virtual UPnP proxies for discovered ZigBee devices [11].…”

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Discovering and accessing peer-to-peer services in UPnP-based federated Domotic Islands

Bellavista

Gallo

Giannelli³

et al. 2012

IEEE Trans. Consumer Electron.

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The growing availability of low-cost network-enabled consumer equipment is pushing for novel domotic scenarios characterized by a plethora of heterogeneous devices providing services in a peer-to-peer fashion. In particular, UPnP is widely recognized as the most spread and adopted industrial standard to support inter-device discovery and communication in home networks. However, UPnP scope is traditionally limited to domotic islands, i.e., devices communicate only if in direct visibility and deployed in the same subnet. The paper presents a novel approach to easily and efficiently federate UPnP-based domotic islands, supporting seamless interworking of legacy UPnP devices deployed in different networks at multi-hop distance. In addition, the proposed solution supports Internet federation of remote islands, based on user-managed named groups, to allow the secure discovery and fruition of peer-to-peer services only to authorized users. The proposed solution has been implemented, deployed, and thoroughly tested on several platforms, ranging from high-performance desktop PCs to off-the-shelf smartphones and router-like OSGi-enabled equipment. The reported performance results demonstrate that our solution is suitable even for low-end devices with limited hardware capabilities

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“…Regarding this, the authors decided to have a look at the ZigBee standard 3 . ZigBee offers a widely-used IEEE 802.15.4 based radio frequency mesh-networking standard and can easily be adopted to heterogeneous OSGi system landscapes [4]. ZigBee is mostly used in areas like eHealth or telemedicine, where "ad-hoc" mesh-networking is useful for example to gain body health information via different distributed, so called sensor clouds [12].…”

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“…Figure 3 represents an affordable basic scenario, which fulfills the authors' purpose -to enable a basic, low-budget and extensible infrastructure based on the architecture presented in chapter V. So far, the architecture and a corresponding infrastructure can be realized in various ways using different technologies. One way the authors recommend is to use a simple OSGi based infrastructure (e. g. from [4], [12]) extended with a widely-used communication standard (IEEE 802.x). An example for using Skype on your TV is described at the Skype website 12 .…”

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“…The Smart Building project led by the Fraunhofer inHaus-Zentrum/IMS [3] aims at the optimization of operating and application procedures by integrating Information Technology (IT) and domotics. The approach made by Lin in 2008 contains a wireless ubiquitous home healthcare environment architecture based on ZigBee and OSGi [4]. Moreover, work on smart home automation like [5], [6], [7], [8] or [9] has been studied.…”

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Towards an unified architecture for smart home and Ambient Assisted Living solutions: A focus on elderly people

Fabbricatore

Zucker

Ziganki

et al. 2011

5th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (IEEE DEST 2011)

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Architectures for smart homes address nearly all requirements for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL). The present paper discusses the missing requirements to support daily life situations of elderly people. Therefore, we introduce metrics to evaluate smart home architectures for AAL. Furthermore, we will elaborate extensions to Persona, the most advanced architecture approach of our investigation. The goal of this research is to present an architecture that meets all requirements including those which were identified as missing or have not been taken into account completely. In addition to that, the authors looked at the scalability of state-of-the-art smart home architectures to provide an architectural design that fits the needs of the mass market as well as large scale implementations.

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Using OSGi UPnP and Zigbee to Provide a Wireless Ubiquitous Home Healthcare Environment

Cited by 20 publications

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Smart home technology for telemedicine and emergency management

Smart home technology for telemedicine and emergency management

Discovering and accessing peer-to-peer services in UPnP-based federated Domotic Islands

Towards an unified architecture for smart home and Ambient Assisted Living solutions: A focus on elderly people

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