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Enabling an Internet of Things Framework for Ambient Assisted Living

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Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) technologies hold great potential to meet the challenges of health, support, comfort and social services in European countries. After years of research, innovation and development in the field of health care and life support, there is still a lack of good practices on how to improve the market uptake of AAL solutions, how to commercialize laboratory results and prototypes and achieve widely accepted mature solutions with a significant footprint in the European market. The Internet of Things (IoT) consists of Internet connected objects such as sensors and actuators, as well as Smart appliances. Due to its characteristics, requirement and impact on real life system, the IoT has gained significant attention over the last few years. The major goal of this paper is to strategically specify and demonstrate the impact of the usage of IoT technology and the respect of IoT specification on the quality and future collaborative usage and extendability of deployed AAL solutions in real life.

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Ben Hmida, H., Braun, A. (2017). Enabling an Internet of Things Framework for Ambient Assisted Living. In: Wichert, R., Mand, B. (eds) Ambient Assisted Living. Advanced Technologies and Societal Change. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52322-4_13

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