Ubiquitous services for senior citizens service architecture and middleware

Author

Pulli, Petri ; Metso, Antero ; Zheng, Xiaosong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Process. Sci., Univ. of Oulu, Oulu

fYear

2008

fDate

25-28 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Ubiquitous services are designed to help senior citizenspsila daily lives. Service architecture and middleware are the key enablers of ubiquitous services. In this paper a service architecture is established with detailed descriptions of its key components and their functions. Game engine is proposed as middleware for ubiquitous services. This paper discusses service architecture and middleware building in detail. At the end of the paper conclusions are made and future research directions are outlined.

Keywords

geriatrics; health care; medical computing; middleware; ubiquitous computing; game engine; senior citizen ubiquitous services; service architecture; service middleware; Buildings; Computer architecture; Consumer electronics; Disaster management; Engines; Health information management; Medical services; Middleware; Quality function deployment; Senior citizens; architecture; game engine; middleware; ontology; senior citizens; ubiquitous services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Sciences on Biomedical and Communication Technologies, 2008. ISABEL '08. First International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Aalborg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2647-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2648-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISABEL.2008.4712594

Filename

4712594