Active life home: a portal-based home care platform
2012
Assistive devices help elderly persons to live longer in their homes. Unfortunately, the devices on the market are incompatible with each other. Also, integration to higher-level services is an open issue. In this article, we propose a portal-based home care platform that integrates together multiple assistive devices and their online services. The integration is done at three levels: service, information, and device. At the service level, we use portal technology to integrate together Personal Health Record (PHR), external services, and web-based device user interfaces. At the information level, we integrate the different devices and services to the PHR using REST-based web services. At the device level, we use a home automation gateway to connect the different devices to the PHR and portal. We tested the architecture in a living lab environment. The results show that multiple integration levels improve the flexibility of home health care systems.
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