Title :
The CLARITY Modular Ambient Health and Wellness Measurement Platform
Author :
Walsh, Michael ; O´Grady, Michael ; Dragone, Mauro ; Tynan, Richard ; Ruzzelli, Antonio ; Barton, John ; O´Flynn, Brendan ; O´Hare, Gregory ; O´Mathuna, Cian
Author_Institution :
Tyndall Nat. Inst., Univ. Coll. Cork (UCC), Cork, Ireland
Abstract :
Emerging healthcare applications can benefit enormously from recent advances in pervasive technology and computing. This paper introduces the CLARITY Modular Ambient Health and Wellness Measurement Platform:, which is a heterogeneous and robust pervasive healthcare solution currently under development at the CLARITY Center for Sensor Web Technologies. This intelligent and context-aware platform comprises the Tyndall Wireless Sensor Network prototyping system, augmented with an agent-based middleware and frontend computing architecture. The key contribution of this work is to highlight how interoperability, expandability, reusability and robustness can be manifested in the modular design of the constituent nodes and the inherently distributed nature of the controlling software architecture.
Keywords :
health care; medical computing; middleware; multi-agent systems; open systems; software architecture; ubiquitous computing; wireless sensor networks; CLARITY center for sensor Web technologies; CLARITY modular ambient health; Tyndall wireless sensor network prototyping system; agent-based middleware; frontend computing architecture; healthcare applications; pervasive healthcare solution; software architecture; wellness measurement platform; Computer architecture; Context; Medical services; Robustness; Sensors; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; agent based intellegence; heterogeneous wireless sensor networks; interoperability; pervasive healthcare;
Conference_Titel :
Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM), 2010 Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Venice
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7538-4
DOI :
10.1109/SENSORCOMM.2010.92
