An Architecture to Combine Context Awareness and Body Sensor Networks for Health Care Applications

Information derived from wearable sensors, such as illness/fall alarms, can be enhanced with context information to provide advanced health care and assisted living applications. In this paper we describe an architecture that combines sensor and context data into a telecommunication service to detect emergency situations and generate alarm calls according to user’s preferences and contacts geographic proximity.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ICOST
• Authors: Alessia Salmeri, Carlo Alberto Licciardi, Luca Lamorte, Massimo Valla, Roberta Giannantonio, Marco Sgroi
• Keywords: Advanced Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Contacts Geographic Proximity, ICOST 2009, Wearable Sensors