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Medication reminder solutions have become a matter of concern in health-care research, as advancements in treatments and medication may be offset by patients' low compliance to medication schedule. In this context, an efficient reminder system should empower patients to accurately follow the prescribed medication program. In order to achieve this, we propose an architecture for a wearable self-care...
Heart affections are currently the main type of illness affecting the elderly, and pose unique difficulties both in diagnostic and in treatment effects tracking and long term evolution monitoring. The already stretched out medical system cannot handle the requirements of long term monitoring of patients with severe heart conditions, and thus, automated long term monitoring solutions are required....
Ambient intelligence techniques and smart Internet of Things objects are empowering healthcare professionalsto provide better services based on improved vitalsigns data enriched with contextual information. In this paper, we provide an overview of current solutions and propose a new taxonomy for ambient and health sensor data, based on three selected metrics. The proposed UNCHAIN architecture provides...
Nowadays, communication networks and wireless technologies offer an ever higher transport capacity. Following the trend, there is an increasing need for high bandwidth technologies in the last mile. Free space optic networks are a viable solution as they can provide high bandwidth without the need for expensive and more difficult to deploy cable infrastructure [1][2]. However, FSO transmissions pose...
Wireless Sensor Networks run critical applications and need to be protected against malicious attacks and faults. In this paper we propose Adaptive Trust Management Protocol, a protocol that adjusts trust and reputation based on node behavior. The protocol includes three phases: the Learning phase, in which experience is computed based on these alerts received from TinyAFD, the Exchanging phase, in...
The current demographic evolution of the world population, especially in developed countries, is constantly exerting an ever growing pressure on the medical system. As the average life expectancy in developed countries is on the rise, and medical breakthroughs in treating severe conditions increase the life expectancy of elder patients, the need for automatic monitoring systems for elder patients...
The constant increase of life expectancy in the last decades is constantly prompting for new and better solutions to support the overstressed medical system. Solutions for tele monitoring of elder patients in their own homes are seen as one of the key solutions in reducing the financial and human resources demand on a medical system that needs to address a constantly growing number of elder patients...
Having solid knowledge of electronics is of major importance for a Computer Science (CS) student. The means for achieving a good level of understanding, especially of the practical aspects, is an ongoing issue (in the short time frame that is generally allocated for it in a CS program). Due to the applied nature of the subject, the authors consider that a pragmatic practice-based approach is an appropriate...
In this paper we present a mobile system for air quality and pollution measurement suited for the urban environment. We designed, tested and built a reliable measurement device that can acquire information about the air quality of its surroundings, store it in a temporary memory buffer and periodically relay it to a central on-line repository. Real-time gathered data can be freely accessed by the...
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