Smart city technology meets smart health assistive systems - on the example of the project AYUDO

Abstract

Active and Assisted Living (AAL) systems have been developed over the last decade to improve the quality of life, independence and well-being of the elderly. In the future, there will be an increased need to embed context sensitive AAL systems in an existing smart environment, equipped with built-in sensors, wearable sensors or smart devices. Especially in the health sector, AAL system architectures show similarities with application architectures in the field of Smart Homes or Smart Cities. In all these domains the use of context-based middleware is essential. Internet of Things (IoT) platforms, which are used particularly in the area of Smart Homes or Smart Cities, deal with a wider range of data than AAL middleware, for which there is no generally accepted solution yet. The aim of this paper is to present a flexible, model-based coupling of context-based middleware, which is widely accepted especially in the field of Smart Cities, with standard interfaces for use in the AAL area. In this paper we use the project AYUDO as an AAL use case and FIWARE, an open IoT middleware platform, as a context-based middleware candidate for this coupling.