Multi-Agent System for Remote Healthcare Monitoring

Abstract

This research is in the field of remote healthcare monitoring systems which propose software solutions to monitor elderly people in their own homes. Our objective is to take advantage of the technological diversity of several Decision Support Systems used to detect distress situations. We propose a multi-agent architecture; each agent encapsulates a decision support system. This encapsulation enables the fusion of heterogonous decisions. In this paper, we present the architecture of our multi-agent system (MAS) and the computation methods to perform the decision fusion. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.