XMPP based Health Care Integrated Ambient Systems Middleware

Integrated Ambient Systems provides multiple research opportunities for individuals to apply their expertise in various contexts through a Cross Domain Collaborative Information Environment (CDCIE). In the current context they become more pervasive in a variety of domains, especially online monitoring systems in healthcare where they allow better quality care and reduced overall cost. As standards become available and interoperability speeds up diffusion of biomedical sensor networks, IAS will involve thousands of entities potentially distributed all over the world. Their locations and behaviors may greatly vary through the lifetime of the system and require real-time management. We argue that these constraints need to be handled by an efficient middleware. In this paper, we consider inter-process communication requirements as a bask: block to construct large scale IAS. We propose a possible real-time event notification model to perform the loosely coupled interactions required in such large-scale settings. We provide an XMPP based event notification solution with detailed model and working proof.