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In this paper conceptions and architectural considerations of the OSAMI project and their specializations towards the requirements of the e-health domain by the German subproject (OSAMI-D) are described. Along with the expected shift of healthcare service between stationary towards ambulatory care, a standardized way of integrating medical data acq...
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... Remote Health Monitoring 1. WBAN can be connected with a medical care facility over the internet in order to monitor health conditions, thus reducing the dependency of patients on in-clinic monitoring [35]. ...
... Remote Health Monitoring 1. WBAN can be connected with a medical care facility over the internet in order to monitor health conditions, thus reducing the dependency of patients on in-clinic monitoring [35]. ...
Advancements in medical science and technology, medicine and public health coupled with increased consciousness about nutrition and environmental and personal hygiene have paved the way for the dramatic increase in life expectancy globally in the past several decades. However, increased life expectancy has given rise to an increasing aging population, thus jeopardizing the socioeconomic structure of many countries in terms of costs associated with elderly healthcare and wellbeing. In order to cope with the growing need for elderly healthcare services, it is essential to develop affordable, unobtrusive and easy-to-use healthcare solutions. Smart homes, which incorporate environmental and wearable medical sensors, actuators, and modern communication and information technologies, can enable continuous and remote monitoring of elderly health and wellbeing at a low cost. Smart homes may allow the elderly to stay in their comfortable home environments instead of expensive and limited healthcare facilities. Healthcare personnel can also keep track of the overall health condition of the elderly in real-time and provide feedback and support from distant facilities. In this paper, we have presented a comprehensive review on the state-of-the-art research and development in smart home based remote healthcare technologies.
... Remote Health Monitoring 1. WBAN can be connected with a medical care facility over the internet in order to monitor health conditions, thus reducing the dependency of patients on in-clinic monitoring [35]. ...
In this paper, a modified S-MAC protocol incorporating a new back-off mechanism applicable to body sensor networks (BSNs) is proposed. The proposed protocol alleviates the drawback associated with the back-off mechanism which is currently utilized in the original S-MAC protocol in addition to its derivatives. Also, the cross-layer technique is used so as to achieve a better energy consumption and a reduced delay which are both accomplished by adjusting the contention window adaptively. Performance analysis of the modified S-MAC protocol is evaluated in a network simulator (i.e., NS-2) by monitoring the energy efficiency, delay and throughput parameters in an example BSNs. The obtained results show a significant improvement with the proposed protocol performance compared to the original counterpart.
... 3) Remote Control of Medical Devices: The ubiquitous Internet connectivity of WBANs allows for networking of the devices and services in home care known as Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), where each WBAN wirelessly communicates with a back-end medical network [19]. AAL aims to prolong the self-conducted care of patients that are assisted in their home, minimizing the dependency on intensive personal care, increasing quality of life and decreasing society costs. ...
... However, a widely recognized layered architecture is ignored in SOA and faces problems of abstracting objects' functionalities and communications capabilities which are required for service composition. ITEA2 OSAMI commons [12,13] project have shown the basic design of SOA-oriented platforms. This knowledge can be applicable in the context of the global roadmap of the WoO. ...
Recent advancements in the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Web of Things (WoT) accompany a smart life where real world objects, including sensing devices, are interconnected with each other. The Web representation of smart objects empowers innovative applications and services for various domains. To accelerate this approach, Web of Objects (WoO) focuses on the implementation aspects of bringing the assorted real world objects to the Web applications. In this paper; we propose an emergency fire management system in the WoO infrastructure. Consequently, we integrate the formation and management of Virtual Objects (ViO) which are derived from real world physical objects and are virtually connected with each other into the semantic ontology model. The charm of using the semantic ontology is that it allows information reusability, extensibility and interoperability, which enable ViOs to uphold orchestration, federation, collaboration and harmonization. Our system is context aware, as it receives contextual environmental information from distributed sensors and detects emergency situations. To handle a fire emergency, we present a decision support tool for the emergency fire management team. The previous fire incident log is the basis of the decision support system. A log repository collects all the emergency fire incident logs from ViOs and stores them in a repository.
... 3) Remote Control of Medical Devices: The ubiquitous Internet connectivity of WBANs allows for networking of the devices and services in home care known as Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), where each WBAN wirelessly communicates with a back-end medical network [19]. AAL aims to prolong the self-conducted care of patients that are assisted in their home, minimizing the dependency on intensive personal care, increasing quality of life and decreasing society costs. ...
... 3) Remote Control of Medical Devices: The ubiquitous Internet connectivity of WBANs allows for networking of the devices and services in home care known as Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), where each WBAN wirelessly communicates with a back-end medical network [19]. AAL aims to prolong the self-conducted care of patients that are assisted in their home, minimizing the dependency on intensive personal care, increasing quality of life and decreasing society costs. ...
Recent developments and technological advancements in wireless communication, MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) technology and integrated circuits has enabled lowpower,
intelligent, miniaturized, invasive/non-invasive micro and nano-technology sensor nodes strategically placed in or around the human body to be used in various applications such as personal health monitoring. This exciting new area of research is called Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) and leverages the emerging IEEE 802.15.6 and IEEE 802.15.4j standards, specifically standardized for medical WBANs. The aim of WBANs is to simplify and improve speed, accuracy, and reliability of communications. The vast scope of challenges associated with WBANs has led to numerous publications. In this paper, we
survey the current state-of-art of WBANs based on the latest standards and publications. Open issues and challenges within each area are also explored as a source of inspiration towards future developments in WBANs.
... For example, the PERSONA project (Perceptive Spaces prOmoting iNdependent Aging) [32], which aims at developing a scalable open standard technological platform for the building of a broad range of Ambient Assisted Living Services, faces a significant technical challenge in the design of a self-organizing middleware infrastructure to allow the extensibility of component/device ensembles; however, no mechanism is available to check the correctness of the system during execution. The OSAMI project (Open Source Ambient Intelligence) [33] provides middleware services to integrate the medical data acquired at home into the IT infrastructure of hospitals and the synchronization with medical workflows has to be implemented. These services have been used to realize two home care scenarios, which support ambulant cardiological rehabilitation (indoors and outdoors). ...
Ambient Intelligence technologies have not yet been widely adopted in safety critical scenarios. This principally has been due to fact that acceptable degrees of dependability have not been reached for the applications that rely on such technologies. However, the new critical application domains, like Ambient Assisted Living and Smart Hospitals, which are currently emerging, are increasing the need for methodologies and tools that can improve the reliability of the final systems. This paper presents a middleware architecture for safety critical Ambient Intelligence applications which provides the developer with services for runtime verification. It is now possible to continuously monitor and check the running system against correctness properties defined at design time. Moreover, a visual tool which allows the formal design of several of the characteristics of an Ambient Intelligence application and the automatic generation of setting up parameters and code for the middleware infrastructure is also presented.
... The results of the ongoing OSAmI-D subproject are demonstrated in the scenario of home-based ergometer training during the rehabilitation of patients with cardiologic illnesses. An overview of the OSAmI-D scenario and the resulting OSAmI-D application is given in [1]. The OSAmI platform is composed of cross-domain 'horizontal' and domain-specific 'vertical' services, provided from various project partners, mostly under an open source licence. ...
... To fulfill the needs of interaction between physician and patient the challenge of interoperability must be addressed. Interoperability is from prime importance because various types of vital signs and other health related data need to be gathered and interpreted across applications, e.g., in a clinic or ambulant [1]. On the physician side, the data must be human-readable, processable, ensure authenticity and should be saved for years due to legal restriction. ...
... The patient monitoring is not implemented as component but as the actual OSAmI-D application on top of the OSAmI component platform. It uses and instruments several basic and several application specific components to implement the training scenario as described in [1]. Some but not all basic components used by this application are described in this paper. ...
The demographic change and the cost pressure in the healthcare sector drive the need for efficient and secure medical homecare solutions which apply for the people who are elderly or in anastasis. As the complexity of such systems is rising, there is a need of a common foundation of components which can be reused to lower the implementation effort of such systems. The European ITEA2 OSAmI research project targets such a common foundation of basic components for a basic, widely applicable service-oriented component platform. The German OSAmI-D subproject develops a construction kit based on the OSAmI component platform with a particular focus on services for medical and E-Health applications. The results of the ongoing project and especially the foundation of reusable components are demonstrated in the scenario of home-based ergometer training during the rehabilitation of patients with cardiologic illnesses.
... The system described in this paper is also based on a service oriented approach and in contrast to SOPRANO it does not build upon an ontology-based architecture and semantic contracts. It is being used, in slightly different variations, in a number of AAL research projects: Hearing at Home [4], GAL [5], OSAmI [6] and PAGE [7]. This paper focuses on the assistive systems implemented within the GAL project, while most other applications are described in [8]. ...
GAL, the Lower Saxony Research Network Design of Environments for Ageing, investigates how information and communication technology can provide for better environments for ageing. This paper describes a service oriented middleware platform for Ambient Assisted Living and its use in a number of different assistive systems developed in the GAL project: personal activity and household assistant, monitoring of preventive and rehabilitation sports, sensor-based activity determination, and sensor-based fall prevention and recognition. Besides a detailed description of the middleware platform and its elements and interfaces, central infrastructure services and their particularly applications in the different use cases are presented.
