Abstract
Home Care Applications and Ambient Assisted Living become increasingly attractive. This is caused as well by market pull, as the number of elderly people grows monotonously in highly-developed countries, as well as by technology push, as technological advances and attractive products pave the way to economically advantageous offerings. However, a significant number of challenges remain for real-life applications. Those include the lack of sufficiently standardized and interoperable solutions and thus, the necessity of gateways for integrated solutions, restrictions of the energy budgets, and scalability of solutions with regard to cost and network size. This paper presents the experience from the inCASA project (Integrated Network for Completely Assisted Senior Citizen’s Autonomy), where architectures for heterogeneous physical and logical communication flow are examined.
Highlights
The number of elderly people across Europe, to year 2030, will unbelievably rise, and they are growing more healthy generation-bygeneration
This paper presents the experience from the inCASA project (Integrated Network for Completely Assisted Senior Citizen’s Autonomy), where architectures for heterogeneous physical and logical communication flow are examined
There is a large variety of different network protocols and data models, which are used for home care applications
Summary
The number of elderly people across Europe, to year 2030, will unbelievably rise, and they are growing more healthy generation-bygeneration. Many products and solutions are already available in the market [1] and cover both telecare and telehealth applications. Telecare includes social supervision, such as home alarm [3], while telehealth applications have much stronger medical aspects, such as telecardiology [2]. It can be observed that most of the current solutions are still isolated devices with no or few interfaces to the outside world. The inCASA project (Integrated Network for Completely Assisted Senior Citizen’s Autonomy) [4] is one of those and aims at developing a system that will support the aging population and facilitate them to feel well in their own homes. The proposed application will monitor biometric data and track environment parameters of elderly users into their own home. Ch. 4 will give an outlook on the pilot installations, which are currently equipped with the described devices
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