International Workshop on "Advances in Personalized Healthcare Services, Wearable Mobile Monitoring, and Social Media Pervasive Technologies"

Research Article

SIXTH: A Middleware for Supporting Ubiquitous Sensing in Personal Health Monitoring

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-37893-5_47,
        author={Dominic Carr and Michael O’Grady and Gregory O’Hare and Rem Collier},
        title={SIXTH: A Middleware for Supporting Ubiquitous Sensing in Personal Health Monitoring},
        proceedings={International Workshop on "Advances in Personalized Healthcare Services, Wearable Mobile Monitoring, and Social Media Pervasive Technologies"},
        proceedings_a={APHS},
        year={2013},
        month={4},
        keywords={Middleware Ambient Assisted Living WSN},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-37893-5_47}
    }
    
  • Dominic Carr
    Michael O’Grady
    Gregory O’Hare
    Rem Collier
    Year: 2013
    SIXTH: A Middleware for Supporting Ubiquitous Sensing in Personal Health Monitoring
    APHS
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37893-5_47
Dominic Carr1,*, Michael O’Grady1,*, Gregory O’Hare1,*, Rem Collier1,*
  • 1: University College Dublin (UCD)
*Contact email: dominic.carr@ucdconnect.ie, michael.j.ogrady@ucd.ie, gregory.ohare@ucd.ie, rem.collier@ucd.ie

Abstract

For an arbitrary event, a lack of the prevailing context compromises understanding. In health monitoring services, this may have serious repercussions. Yet many biomedical devices tend to exhibit a lack of openness and interoperability that reduces their potential as active nodes in broader healthcare information systems. One approach to addressing this deficiency rests in the realization of a middleware solution that is heterogeneous in a multiplicity of dimensions, whilst supporting dynamic reprogramming as the needs of patients change. This paper demonstrates how such functionality may be interwoven into a middleware solution, both from a design and implementation perspective.