An Environmental Multiagent Architecture for Health Management

The development of smart devices and software techniques within the fields of ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence offers new interesting opportunities for elder, disabled, and chronically-ill people. This paper presents a multiagent architectural solution, called environmental agency, for the flexible cooperation and coordination of the devices pervading an environment in order to satisfy the needs of human beings, in particular of impaired people. We experimentally validated the environmental agency paradigm for health-related needs with special attention to the physiological monitoring of diabetic patients.

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