Title :
Ambient Assisted Living: A methodological approach
Author :
Estudillo-Valderrama, Miguel A. ; Roa, Laura M. ; Reina-Tosina, Javier ; Román-Martínez, Isabel
Author_Institution :
CIBER de Bioingenieria, Biomater. y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Univ. of Seville, Seville, Spain
fDate :
Aug. 31 2010-Sept. 4 2010
Abstract :
In this paper, the most important challenges and trends related to the application of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) methods and techniques to the social/healthcare context are discussed. In order to find out technical solutions to these challenges, the main methodological issues concerning the design of open and distributed architectures are analyzed. The objective is to improve the efficiency/cost ratio in the provision of social and healthcare services to citizens with special needs, through the application of new paradigms in the context of AAL environments. Finally, some results and conclusions regarding the proposed open architecture are illustrated for the case of a distributed biomedical sensor network designed by the authors following this methodology.
Keywords :
biomedical telemetry; body sensor networks; ambient assisted living methods; distributed biomedical sensor network; efficiency-cost ratio; healthcare services; open architecture; service-oriented architectures; social services; Biomedical monitoring; Computer architecture; Context; Senior citizens; Service oriented architecture; Wireless sensor networks; Ambient assisted living; distributed processing; open service architecture; Aged; Biomedical Engineering; Biosensing Techniques; Equipment Design; Health Services for the Aged; Home Care Services; Humans; Information Management; Information Storage and Retrieval; Information Systems; Software;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Buenos Aires
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4123-5
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626628
