Title: Ubiquitous and personalised contextual biomonitoring

Authors: O. Andrei Dragoi, Nadjia Kara

Addresses: International Institute of Telecommunications – Research, Montreal, Canada. ' International Institute of Telecommunications – Research, Montreal, Canada

Abstract: Biomonitoring services can reduce healthcare costs and improve the quality of life by keeping a person longer in the community. This paper describes the challenges in building a remote biomonitoring system that is aware of both the environmental and the biomedical context of the subscriber. Starting from requirements identified in typical biomonitoring scenarios, a biomonitoring architecture was devised. This was refined and validated through a prototype that combines context-adaptation and awareness with the ubiquity of 3G network-coverage to allow more personalised monitoring and to better streamline information between the various healthcare players. One of the prototype goals was easy customisation and extensibility with additional inference rules, actions, and context information types and sources.

Keywords: 3G cellular networks; remote biomonitoring; context awareness; telehealth; healthcare technology; ubiquitous biomonitoring; personalised biomonitoring.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHTM.2009.023726

International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, 2009 Vol.10 No.1/2, pp.27 - 48

Published online: 08 Mar 2009 *

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