CMPC WORKSHOP (PervasiveHealth) 2009

Research Article

OpenCare project: An open, flexible and easily extendible infrastructure for pervasive healthcare assisted living solutions

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2009.5992,
        author={Stefan Wagner and Claus Nielsen},
        title={OpenCare project: An open, flexible and easily extendible infrastructure for pervasive healthcare assisted living solutions},
        proceedings={CMPC WORKSHOP (PervasiveHealth) 2009},
        proceedings_a={CMPC},
        year={2009},
        month={8},
        keywords={component; pervasive healthcare pervasive computing ubiquitous computing home care assisted living infrastructure sensor networks vital signs sensor NFC},
        doi={10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2009.5992}
    }
    
  • Stefan Wagner
    Claus Nielsen
    Year: 2009
    OpenCare project: An open, flexible and easily extendible infrastructure for pervasive healthcare assisted living solutions
    CMPC
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2009.5992
Stefan Wagner1,*, Claus Nielsen2,*
  • 1: Engineering College of Aarhus, Computer Technology and Embedded Systems, Aarhus, Denmark
  • 2: University of Aarhus, Department of Computer Science, Aarhus, Denmark
*Contact email: sw@iha.dk, cln@cs.au.dk

Abstract

Pervasive healthcare technology is needed to meet the challenges of an aging population in the western world, as well as an expected major shortage of healthcare personnel in the near future. The OpenCare Project is an open source infrastructure framework, designed to be used by researchers and corporate developers for developing experimental assisted living prototypes, as well as a complete feature rich systems with a high degree of flexibility and modifiability. Following a motivating discussion on the problem domain, a survey of related research projects and commercial products, points out the need for an open source infrastructure framework. Finally, the OpenCare Project is presented and the overall design is discussed.