Towards Integrated Services for Health Monitoring

The emergence of short-range wireless communications hold the promise of realizing the grand vision of the next generation communication networks in which devices follow a always best-connected pattern for anybody, to anything from anywhere at anytime. Short-range wireless communications offers easy access to the global information and communications infrastructure, facilitates seamless connectivity amongst a host of computing, communications and sensing devices that collaborate to form a supporting ambient and pervasive computing environment. In this paper, we describe the IS-Home project where we propose a novel autonomic communications middleware platform enabling a wide variety of integrated services to be installed, including health monitoring services. The motivation for the project is to take advantage of the opportunities that open and standardized protocols and technologies can represent in the future home environment.