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

fYear

2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556589

Filename

5556589