An RFID-enabled framework to support Ambient Home Care Services
Henar Martín Rodríguez, Eduardo Metola Moreno, Luca Bergesio, Ana M. Bernardos Barbolla, Josué Iglesias Alvarez, José Ramón Casar Corredera · 2010
The growing number of elderly in modern societies is encouraging advances in remote assistive solutions to enable sustainable and safe ‘ageing in place’. Among the many technologies which may serve to support Ambient Home Care Systems, RFID is offering a set of differential features which make it suitable to build new interaction schemes while supporting horizontal system’s features such as localization. This paper details the design of a passive RFID-based AHCS, composed by an infrastructure of mobile and static tags and readers controlled by a SOA (service oriented architecture) middleware. The technology possibilities, its drawbacks and integration problems in this application domain are described from a practical approach.