Paper Info
Title
An Enhanced Quality of Context Evaluating Approach in the e-Health Sensor Platform
Abstract
This paper presents an enhanced approach to the evaluation of Quality of Context (QoC) parameters in a ubiquitous Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) e-Health platform, supporting the care of people with special needs (elderly or with health problems) thus improving their quality of life. At the outset, the study presents a literature review of QoC. Then it introduces the proposed context management architecture. The proposal is initially verified with the Siafu simulator in an AAL scenario where the user's health is monitored with information about blood pressure, heart rate and body temperature. The research proceeded with the use of the e-Health Sensor Platform, a differentiated real environment. The experiment used the sensors: pulse and oxygen in blood, body temperature, blood pressure, patient's position and falls. Considering some parameters, the proposed QoC evaluation allowed verifying the extent to which the context information is up-to-date, valid, accurate, complete and significant. Just as in the simulation, and with the QoC evaluation, the completed real experiment confirmed instances of insufficient QoC and its possible causes, in addition to alerts to potential health problems. This proposal means a big social impact and a technological innovation applied to AAL, at the disposal and support of a significant number of individuals such as elderly or sick people, and with a more precise technology.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2815317.2815320
Q2SWinet@MSWiM
Field
DocType
Citations 
Architecture,Special needs,Context management,Computer security,Risk analysis (engineering),Ubiquitous computing,Engineering,Social impact
Conference
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
6
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Débora Cabral Nazário1163.65
Adroaldo de Andrade220.40
Lucas Borges320.40
Willian Romeu Ramos420.40
José Leomar Todesco5287.87
Mario Antonio Ribeiro Dantas6224.45