Scenarios for health management in Future Home

Author

Parkka, J. ; Frumento, E. ; Rentto, K. ; Suihkonen, R. ; von Wersch, O. ; Saranummi, N.

Author_Institution

VTT Inf. Technol., Tampere, Finland

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

23-26 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

1904

Abstract

The Future Home project has focused on specifying and implementing a wireless residential networking and gateway system. The main objective of the specified architecture is integration of heterogeneous wireless technologies, IPv6, and middleware for services. The project has studied many different smart home scenarios, and one central field of application is health and wellness management. in this paper, we provide a description of the future home technological concept and results from the user interviews about their opinions on different health related scenarios.

Keywords

Internet; health care; home computing; middleware; quality of service; telemedicine; wireless LAN; Future Home project; HAVi; IPv6 integration; Java technologies; OSGi; UPnP; WWW technologies; automatic configuration; health management; heterogeneous technologies; home health care; home networking; middleware; mobile terminal; quality of service; residential networking and gateway system; smart home; teleconsultation; telemedicine; user opinions; wireless system; Cardiology; Home appliances; Hospitals; Internet; Medical services; Protocols; Quality of service; Smart homes; Space technology; Telemedicine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2002. 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society EMBS/BMES Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Second Joint

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7612-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1053085

Filename

1053085