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A Home E-Health System for Dependent People Based on OSGI

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This chapter presents a e-health system for dependent people installed in a home environment. After reviewing the state of art in e-health applications and technologies several limitations have been detected because many solutions are proprietary and lack interoperability. The developed home e-health system provides an architecture capable to integrate different telecare services in a smart home gateway hardware independent from the application layer. We propose a rule system to define users– behavior and monitor relevant events. Two example systems have been implemented to monitor patients. A data model for the e-health platform is described as well.

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Martín, J., Seepold, R., Madrid, N.M., Álvarez, J.A., Fernández-Montes, A., Ortega, J.A. (2009). A Home E-Health System for Dependent People Based on OSGI. In: Martínez Madrid, N., Seepold, R.E. (eds) Intelligent Technical Systems. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 38. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9823-9_9

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