Environment for Telehealth Applications on Top of BDI4JADE

Patients using telehealth systems have different needs and hence their treatments must differ accordingly. Different compositions of smart home sensors, telehealth devices, and services are used depending on the needs of the individual. This paper presents an open and flexible infrastructure implemented as an agent-based environment to handle the problem of seamless integration between the technologies used in telehealth deployments. The environment uses an ontology to facilitate semantic interoperability. Data providers are easily and transparently wrapped in JADE gateway agents, committed to the ontology, to integrate to the infrastructure.