Integration of Wearable Solutions in AAL Environments with Mobility Support

• Published in: Journal of medical systems Vol. 39; no. 12; p. 184
• Main Authors: Costa, Susana E. P., Rodrigues, Joel J. P. C., Silva, Bruno M. C., Isento, João N., Corchado, Juan M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.12.2015; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Accidental Falls; Aged; Algorithms; Assisted living facilities; Biosensors; Body Temperature; Constraining; Demographics; Design engineering; Elderly people; Electrocardiography, Ambulatory - instrumentation; Environmental monitoring; Equipment Design; Falls; Female; Health Informatics; Health Sciences; Humans; Internet; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Mobile Applications; Mobile Systems; Monitoring systems; Patient Satisfaction; Pilot Projects; Pilots; Platforms; Pulse; Remote Sensing Technology - instrumentation; Reproducibility of Results; Respiratory Rate; Statistics for Life Sciences; Telemedicine - instrumentation; Wearable; Wearable computers; Wireless Technology - instrumentation; Bio-signals monitoring; Ambient assisted living; Mobile environments; Fall detection; Wearable sensors
• ISSN: 0148-5598; 1573-689X
• DOI: 10.1007/s10916-015-0342-z

The overall demographic profile of current societies point to a significant growth of the elderly people. Associated with the increase of the average hope of life and consequent increase in chronic diseases, there is the need for protection and daily care. Increasing investments in technology, such as Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) solutions, promote the quality of live extending the time people can live in their desired environment. This paper proposes the design, deployment, and real testbed of an e-health wearable monitoring system based on the integration of several AAL tools and platforms for elderly’s bio-signals monitoring. This solution includes electrocardiography (ECG), respiration rate, beats per minute, body temperature, and falls detention and notification. The paper also describes, in detail, the real pilot and analyzes some early results concerning the users quality of experience, and the found results are very promising.