Personal smart spaces for diabetics

Abstract

The Ad hoc pervasive computing provides an attractive vision for future computing and has a great influence on many fields that need to be smart with simple digital devices interacting and sharing services seamlessly and transparently. Healthcare is a key area that can benefit from smart digital spaces, especially extending services to out-of-hospital contexts. In this poster, we describe the design of a system, called Personal Smart Space (PSS), which provides an automated method for bootstrapping a personal space. Specifically, PSS will track a person's health and handle variations that may indicate a risk. The PSS is comprised of several services; namely, discovery management, event, description, and presentation. This poster describes the implementation and verification of this PSS for diabetic patients, which is comprised of 4 devices, 5 services and a coordinator. The PSS utilizes the UPnP protocol and XML standards to describe the devices and services to provide more flexibility. The novelty of this PSS lies in how the coordinator provides an interface to components (GPS, Camera, Glucose sensor, and mobile communication devices) and integrates a notification system as well as finding a backup device in cases of faults in one of the PSS components. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.