Ambient Assisted Living Ecosystems of Personal Healthcare Systems; Applications; and Devices
Mukhtiar Memon, Stefan Wagner, Finn Overgaard Hansen, Christian Fischer Pedersen, Femina Hassan Aysha Beevi, Morten Mathissen, Claus Nielsen, O Langvad · 2013
Personal health monitoring aims to empower citizens' for their healthcare and wellness.The healthcare devices, connected with healthcare applications, clinical information systems, tele-medicine services, and national medical record systems are evolving into ambient assisted living (AAL) personal healthcare ecosystems.Accordingly, the research and development is gaining significant momentum and expanding multidisciplinarily, addressing functional, quality-of-service and quality-of-experience aspects.However, most of the current research in AAL focuses on specific aspects of AAL in isolation, lacking overall system design, integration and quality perspectives.Consequently, the evolving solutions fail to achieve one or more essential requirements such as interoperability, integration, usability, security, and dependability.To bridge the gap between requirements and technical services, this paper presents a conceptual framework providing a holistic view of AAL ecosystems.Besides, the system architectures and technology standards are discussed for the proposed CareStore platform for seamless deployment of AAL applications and devices.