Ontology-based context aware for ubiquitous home care for elderly people

The interaction between elderly´s body states and their surrounding environment is important in many conditions. Biological data and activity data in elderly´s daily life using wearable body sensor can be monitored and then can be adjusted with environment to gain the comfort condition. Seamless integration home care which is embedded with pervasive devices and awaring of the context can help residents to achieve convenience and finally improve quality of life. The objective of this paper is to analyse and characterize elderly and smart home environment contexts that affect elderly´s convenience. Observation was conducted to elderly community, nursing home, and geriatry to get service activities for elderly. Ontology was used to formulate the personalization process of elderly and decision support tool for doctors and wellbeing experts. The result of this work is presented by developing an ontology-based context aware framework for ubiquitous home care for elderly people.