Compound personal and residential infrastructure for ubiquitous health supervision

Abstract

This paper presents the concept and prototype of a compound infrastructure for ubiquitous human health monitoring. Growing range of mobile health care applications raises the question of their possible interference and cooperation. Particular benefit is expected from integration of personal and residential solutions, because of their complementary features. Consideration of various cooperation scenarios lead us to a specification of three cooperation levels depending on required integration of software. The paper presents details and experimental results of cooperation of two prototype surveillance systems lying in best result selection and conditional use of communication resources of the residential system as a carrier of messages from the personal system over the wired channel. This approach provides a cheap broadband data transfer minimizing the monitoring delays without limiting the subject mobility. © 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.