Medical and context data acquisition system for patient home monitoring

Abstract

Patient remote monitoring has continuously rising importance for aging countries. Computer based assisted living systems are too difficult to handle by elderly people, therefore it has been proposed to extend smart home control or entertainment systems with patient monitoring functionalities. However, such implementations are usually platform and data protocol specific making their extension time consuming and data interpretation complicated. We propose a semantics driven messaging system and agent based software architecture for home telecare that is open for adding any kind of medical or context sensors, either wired or wireless ones. System can be reconfigured during the operation and its output data is highly compatible with eHealth databases. The solution is prototyped.