Remote health monitoring by OSGi technology and digital TV integration

Remote home care, enabled by Information and Communication Technologies, plays an important role in the delivery of pervasive health services. One of the most challenging drivers in the deployment of pervasive health care solutions is the population ageing phenomenon. In this paper, we present a wireless, home-centered, health monitoring system architecture that can efficiently manage medical devices in a blind manner, i.e. with very little or no action required by the user, in such a way as to be possibly targeted to elderly people. The Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi) framework is used for constructing the service oriented architecture, according to a Declarative Services paradigm. The proposed architecture has been deployed in a prototype implementation, and some preliminary results are herein discussed.