Software engineering for health education and care delivery systems: The Smart Condo project

Providing affordable, high-quality healthcare to the elderly while enabling them to live independently longer is of critical importance, as this is an increasing and expensive demographic to treat. Sensor-network technologies are essential to developing assisted living environments. In our Smart Con...

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Published in:International Conference on Software Engineering 2009 2009-05, Vol.2009 (10)
Main Authors: Stroulia, Eleni, Chodos, David, Boers, Nicholas M, Huang, Jianzhao, Gburzynski, Pawel, Nikolaidis, Ioanis
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Language:English
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Summary:Providing affordable, high-quality healthcare to the elderly while enabling them to live independently longer is of critical importance, as this is an increasing and expensive demographic to treat. Sensor-network technologies are essential to developing assisted living environments. In our Smart Condo project, we have deployed a sensor network with a variety of sensor types in an 850 square-foot condominium. The sensor network records a variety of events and environmental parameters and feeds the related data into our web-based system. This system is responsible for inferring higher-order information about the activities of the condo's occupant and supporting the visualization of the collected information in a 2D Geographic Information System (GIS) and a 3D virtual world, namely Second Life (SL).
ISSN:0270-5257
DOI:10.1145/1168987.1169006