Title :
The GAL middleware platform for AAL
Author :
Eichelberg, Marco ; Hein, Alexander ; Büsching, Felix ; Wolf, Lars
Author_Institution :
R&D Div. Health, OFFIS - Inst. for Inf. Technol., Oldenburg, Germany
Abstract :
GAL, the Lower Saxony Research Network Design of Environments for Ageing, investigates how information and communication technology can provide for better environments for ageing. This paper describes a service oriented middleware platform for Ambient Assisted Living and its use in a number of different assistive systems developed in the GAL project: personal activity and household assistant, monitoring of preventive and rehabilitation sports, sensor-based activity determination, and sensor-based fall prevention and recognition. Besides a detailed description of the middleware platform and its elements and interfaces, central infrastructure services and their particularly applications in the different use cases are presented.
Keywords :
health care; medical information systems; middleware; patient rehabilitation; software architecture; GAL middleware; GAL project; ageing; ambient assisted living; assistive system; household assistant; information and communication technology; infrastructure service; personal activity; preventive sports; rehabilitation sports; sensor-based activity determination; sensor-based fall prevention; sensor-based fall recognition; service oriented middleware; service-oriented architecture; Biomedical imaging; Biomedical monitoring; Monitoring; AAL; OSGi; middleware; service oriented architecture;
Conference_Titel :
e-Health Networking Applications and Services (Healthcom), 2010 12th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lyon
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6374-9
DOI :
10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556589
