Challenges in Health Smart Homes

Paulo Bartolomeu; José Fonseca; Francisco Vasques

1st International ICST Workshop on Ambient Technologies for Diagnosing and Monitoring Chronic Patients

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Challenges in Health Smart Homes

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2745 ,
    author={Paulo Bartolomeu and Jos\^{e} Fonseca and Francisco Vasques},
    title={Challenges in Health Smart Homes},
    proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on Ambient Technologies for Diagnosing and Monitoring Chronic Patients},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={ATDMCP},
    year={2008},
    month={7},
    keywords={smart homes; assistive technologies; design for all; reliability; security; networking},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2745 }
}

Paulo Bartolomeu
José Fonseca
Francisco Vasques
Year: 2008
Challenges in Health Smart Homes
ATDMCP
IEEE
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2745

Paulo Bartolomeu¹^,*, José Fonseca²^,*, Francisco Vasques³^,*

1: Micro I/O Aveiro, Portugal
2: DETI-UA Aveiro, Portugal
3: DEMEGI-FEUP Porto, Portugal

*Contact email: bartolomeu@microio.pt, jaf@ua.pt, vasques@fe.up.pt

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the challenges in developing health smart homes targeting, in particular, elderly and impaired people. As such, it identifies the current endeavors as well as the main areas of research.

Keywords: smart homes; assistive technologies; design for all; reliability; security; networking

Published: 2008-07-22
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2011-07-13

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2745