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The paradigmatic shift brought by the Internet of Things has already revolutionized many key sectors, like environmental monitoring, grid and energy management, manufacturing, and it can be seen as a promising solution to address challenging societal issues, like the ability to provide significant enhancement to quality of life for the elderly and, in general, people in need. As a consequence, Internet...
The concept of Internet of Things is being applied in several areas and involves a dramatically increasing number of market sectors. There is a large variety of commercial products, and the competition between different vendors often causes incompatibility among the available solutions. Due to the lack of a reference standard, in the highly fragmented arena of Ambient Assisted Living systems and Smart...
The adoption of the Internet of Things paradigm in Ambient Assisted Living platforms requires the investigation and analysis of issues related to data collection and processing. In fact, the peculiarities of Ambient Assisted Living services and applications pose specific requirements on the way data originated from sensors should be processed (locally or remotely), delivered (as raw data, or in aggregated...
In the framework of Ambient Assisted Living solutions, it is very important to monitor the degree of vitality of elderly users in their daily activities, for example to evaluate if the user is spending too much time in a static condition, or not. In fact this could denote an anomalous trend, possibly related to cognitive or physical conditions worsening. For such a kind of monitoring to be effective,...
Population aging may be seen both as a human success story, the triumph of public health, medical advancements and economic development over diseases and injures, and as one of the most challenging phenomena that society faces in this century. Assistive technology in all its possible implementations (from Telemedicine to Ambient Assisted Living, and Ambient Intelligence) represents an emerging answer...
Cloud computing is perceived as the next wave of ICT, and many real experiences are on the commercial scene. However this kind of architecture has open legal issues which makes it an endeavor for Public Administrations, despite its potential impact on the efficiency, effectiveness and transparency of administrative initiatives. In the present paper we present the experience made in the deployment...
Continuous research in the e-health field aims to develop an increasing number of services targeted to patients, and featuring low costs, high quality and efficiency, personalization and user-control. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) supports ubiquitous healthcare services: in particular, the solution herein proposed focuses on the availability of remote health services at home, designed...
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