Aging population ratios are rising significantly. Health monitoring systems (HMS) in smart
environments have evolved rapidly to become a viable alternative to traditional healthcare …

Ambient assisted living (AAL) is focused on providing assistance to people primarily in their
natural environment. Over the past decade, the AAL domain has evolved at a fast pace in …

An automated irrigation system was developed to optimize water use for agricultural crops.
The system has a distributed wireless network of soil-moisture and temperature sensors …

Advances in wireless communication technologies, such as wearable and implantable
biosensors, along with recent developments in the embedded computing area are enabling …

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is an emerging multi-disciplinary field aiming at exploiting
information and communication technologies in personal healthcare and telehealth systems …

Many devices and solutions for remote electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring have been
proposed in the literature. These solutions typically have a large marginal cost per added …

At present, the domotization of homes and public buildings is becoming increasingly
popular. Domotization is most commonly applied to the field of energy management, since it …

In this paper we propose an approximation algorithm, which is called ADCMCST (algorithm
with the minimum number of child nodes when the depth is restricted), to construct a tree …

New solutions are required for the management of heterogeneous distributed sensor
networks in order to address the problem of data quality and false data detection in wireless …

Activities of daily living are good indicators of elderly health status, and activity recognition in
smart environments is a well-known problem that has been previously addressed by several …