Articolo in rivista, 2013, ENG, 10.1155/2013/510126

AAL middleware infrastructure for green bed activity monitoring

Palumbo F.; Barsocchi P.; Furfari F.; Ferro E.

CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy; CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy; CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy; CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy

This paper describes a service oriented middleware platform for Ambient Assisted Living and its use in two different bed activity services: bedsore prevention and sleeping monitoring. A detailed description of the middleware platform, its elements and interfaces, as well as a service that is able to classify some typical user's positions in the bed are presented. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are supposed to be widely deployed in indoor settings and on people's bodies in tomorrow's pervasive computing environments. The key idea of this work is to leverage their presence by collecting the Received Signal Strength (RSS) measured among fixed general purpose wireless sensor devices, deployed in the environment, and a wearable one. The RSS measurements are used to classify a set of user's positions in the bed, monitoring the activities of the user, and thus supporting the bedsores and the sleep monitoring issues. Moreover, the proposed services are able to decrease the energy consumption by exploiting the context information coming from the proposed middleware.

Journal of Sensors (Online) Online First 18 March 2013

Keywords

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), Middleware, Bed activity monitoring, Received Signal Strength (RSS), C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS

CNR authors

Palumbo Filippo, Ferro Erina, Furfari Francesco, Barsocchi Paolo

CNR institutes

ISTI – Istituto di scienza e tecnologie dell'informazione "Alessandro Faedo"

ID: 277110

Year: 2013

Type: Articolo in rivista

Creation: 2014-01-29 19:25:26.000

Last update: 2021-12-17 17:30:33.000

External IDs

CNR OAI-PMH: oai:it.cnr:prodotti:277110

DOI: 10.1155/2013/510126

Scopus: 2-s2.0-84881399546

ISI Web of Science (WOS): 000331808700001