Wireless sensor and actor networks: e-Health, e-Science, e-Decisions

Sliwa, Jan; Benoist, Emmanuel

doi:10.1109/icost.2011.6085829

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“…Medical Sensors and actuators are connected with the AAL applications and home gateways for sending medical data to the health monitoring systems. The sensors rely on WSANs for connecting with home gateways and healthcare applications [ 9 , 10 ]. The home gateways, also known as smart home gateways, often use a wireless router that provides connectivity to enable multiple applications for real-time health monitoring through home networks [ 11 ].…”

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Ambient Assisted Living Healthcare Frameworks, Platforms, Standards, and Quality Attributes

Memon

Wagner

Pedersen

et al. 2014

Sensors

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Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is an emerging multi-disciplinary field aiming at exploiting information and communication technologies in personal healthcare and telehealth systems for countering the effects of growing elderly population. AAL systems are developed for personalized, adaptive, and anticipatory requirements, necessitating high quality-of-service to achieve interoperability, usability, security, and accuracy. The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of the AAL field with a focus on healthcare frameworks, platforms, standards, and quality attributes. To achieve this, we conducted a literature survey of state-of-the-art AAL frameworks, systems and platforms to identify the essential aspects of AAL systems and investigate the critical issues from the design, technology, quality-of-service, and user experience perspectives. In addition, we conducted an email-based survey for collecting usage data and current status of contemporary AAL systems. We found that most AAL systems are confined to a limited set of features ignoring many of the essential AAL system aspects. Standards and technologies are used in a limited and isolated manner, while quality attributes are often addressed insufficiently. In conclusion, we found that more inter-organizational collaboration, user-centered studies, increased standardization efforts, and a focus on open systems is needed to achieve more interoperable and synergetic AAL solutions.

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Ambient Assisted Living Healthcare Frameworks, Platforms, Standards, and Quality Attributes

Memon

Wagner

Pedersen

et al. 2014

Sensors

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147

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“…AAL systems use interconnected technologies for data exchange like medical sensors, wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSANs), computer hardware, computer-networks, software applications, and databases. The collected data is send to health monitoring systems and concerned persons which include physician and caregiver [10,11].…”

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Can Automated Homes be used as Assistants for Elderly?

Mazhar¹,

Hussain²,

Manan³

2019

IJCA

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World Elderly population is rising day by day, which increases demand for healthcare and number of caregivers. Ambient assisted livings is an emerging field(AAL) aimed at making Elderly and physically challenged people's life selfsufficient, safe and independent. Due to progresses in technology our surroundings are being automated. These may include homes, hospitals, factories and transportation. Ambient Assisted Environments for elder people monitor their daily activities to detect any abnormal or abrupt behavior. Any anomaly detected can be then sent to the concerned person who can be physician or family member of the elderly. As Ambient is a diverse field having a lot of technologies and application areas. Activity monitoring can be specified to a certain specific activity e.g. Fall detection and monitoring Vital Signs. This paper specifically focuses on smart home projects of Ambient Assisted Livings for elderly people monitoring overall daily activities. Out of two Ambient Technologies aspects providing support for indoor and outdoor activities of aged people this paper is focused on indoor smart environments. The prime objective of this paper is to analyze different researches being done in Ambient Assisted Livings (AAL) used for home automation or building smart homes. A comparative study of various AAL environments is followed by a discussion on issues linked with AAL. Along with the analysis of issues and challenges associated with these, a roadmap is also provided for the researchers for knowledge acquisition bout AAL systems.

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“…In this paper however we focus on the incoming data streams. In our previous papers we have discussed the ethical aspects of enhancing human organisms with technical instruments (Sliwa and Benoist, 2011b) and presented this overwhelming development in a historical perspective (Sliwa and Benoist, 2011a). We present here a basic introduction to this subject, a broader overview (with further references) is given in the aforementioned papers.…”

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Management of Multiple Data Streams in Sensor Networks for Medicine

2013

Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics

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In this paper we discuss the privacy aware management of data streams generated by wireless sensor networks (WSN) in medical applications. Such data are primarily used to ensure the direct health support for a specific patient. They can also be used for other purposes, like quality assurance of applied devices and comparative evaluation research of medical treatments. Considering the novelty of the WSN-based medical application, every information helping to improve the service is extremely useful. As privacy in medicine is an important issue, care should be taken to harmonize the legal requirements with the medical necessities. Data used for different purposes have different characteristics, different users and different access rules. Therefore the raw data stream has to be split and processed (condensed, anonymized, etc.) in various ways dependent on the use. The access to data has to defined differently for different output data streams.

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Wireless sensor and actor networks: e-Health, e-Science, e-Decisions

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Ambient Assisted Living Healthcare Frameworks, Platforms, Standards, and Quality Attributes

Ambient Assisted Living Healthcare Frameworks, Platforms, Standards, and Quality Attributes

Can Automated Homes be used as Assistants for Elderly?

Management of Multiple Data Streams in Sensor Networks for Medicine

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