An Open Architecture to Enhance Pervasiveness and Mobility of Health Care Services

This paper describes a system for ubiquitous monitoring of health and physical parameters, suitable to run on home-based infrastructures and personal mobile settings. The system is built on a micro Web of Things Open Platform (μWoTOP), enabling easy integration of sensing and processing modules. It also facilitates building ubiquitous services by accessing biometric sensors through uniform interfaces based on REST. Additionally, the system is capable of processing user context and generate alerts based on the Common Alerting Protocol, making its output compatible with already existing medical solutions. The system has been customized to deploy a fall/faint detection solution, which enables multiple supervisors with the capability of receiving real time alerts on monitored subjects.

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