A promising architecture for remote healthcare monitoring involves the use of a pervasive
device (such as a cellular phone), which aggregates data from multiple body-worn medical …

A particularly compelling vision of long-term remote health monitoring advocates the use of
a personal pervasive device (such as a cellphone) as an intermediate relay, which …

Most visions of ubiquitous computing anticipate a world permeated by a dense sampling of
sensors, many of which will be capable of capturing, analyzing, and transmitting personally …

This paper introduces a new software development platform specifically designed for
wireless health applications. Wireless health applications follow a unique paradigm …

Recent advances in wireless technology, sensors and portable devices offer interesting
opportunities to enable ubiquitous assistance to individuals in need of prompt help …

The continued increase of senior population worldwide is causing challenges to existing
healthcare and support systems in terms of infrastructure and trained professionals …

Monitoring of personnel and assets in harsh or remote environments is a great challenge
both from the organizational and the technical points of view. Usually, significant …

Sophisticated electronics are within reach of average users. Cooperation between wireless
sensor networks and existing consumer electronic infrastructures can assist in the areas of …

In ubiquitous computing environments, contextawareness is one of the most important
research topics. Computers embedded in our surrounding can extract information about a …

The goal of the CARA (Context-Aware Real-time Assistant) healthcare architecture is to
enable improved healthcare through the intelligent use of wireless remote monitoring of …