Sensor Infrastructures for Ambient Assisted Living

Abstract

The presence of people on virtual social networks, their interactions, interests and their feedback can be perceived as inputs for assistive healthcare systems to predict a certain risk or condition. In this chapter we address the modern role of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) in daily life activities. We emphasise the significance of integrating intelligent sensor infrastructures to current AAL architectures. We describe the main features and core architecture of a sensor middleware and introduce the service gateways provided to expand the range of data inputs within AAL architectures. Finally we present a motivating scenario of a healthcare service application, (i.e., iMED), which we are employing as an example to link AAL architectures and Sensor Middlewares.