Alireza Zarghami

Service provisioning for homecare

Interoperability and integration of homecare services

Description of research

The U-care project is developing a flexible homecare services platform to support independent living of elderly. Homecare systems, such as medication-dispensers, action reminders, videophones, vital signs monitoring devices, and location/motion sensors, can play an important role in realizing this. Unfortunately, the adoption of home-care systems is hindered by the fact that there are many types of devices, infrastructures and application solutions, which are hard to configure, connect and integrate. My approach to this problem is to develop interoperability solutions based on services, where individual services can encapsulate some basic care-related functionality implemented with appropriate technologies and accessible through standard interfaces, and where different peer services can be repeatedly composed to form some useful higher level service. Communication between peer services at any level should be supported by a homecare-services bus capable of coping with different communication types such as calls, events and streams.

Advisor(s)

Dr. ir. M.J. van Sinderen (Marten)

Prof. dr. R.J. Wieringa (Roel)

Duration

2009- 2013

Project

U-Care - User-tailored Care services platform

Funding institution

IOP Generieke Communicatie

Strategic Research Orientation

ASSIST - Applied Science of Services for Information Society Technologies

Links to relevant web pages:

http://is.ewi.utwente.nl/

http://ucare.ewi.utwente.nl/

http://wwwhome.ewi.utwente.nl/~zarghamia/

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Home CTIT symposium 2013 About CTIT News NIRICT Research Meet the PhDs Working at CTIT Internal Information Conferences Open Calls (updated May 3, 2013) Library and Videos Knowledge Transfer Links Sitemap Search	Alireza Zarghami Service provisioning for homecare Interoperability and integration of homecare services Description of research The U-care project is developing a flexible homecare services platform to support independent living of elderly. Homecare systems, such as medication-dispensers, action reminders, videophones, vital signs monitoring devices, and location/motion sensors, can play an important role in realizing this. Unfortunately, the adoption of home-care systems is hindered by the fact that there are many types of devices, infrastructures and application solutions, which are hard to configure, connect and integrate. My approach to this problem is to develop interoperability solutions based on services, where individual services can encapsulate some basic care-related functionality implemented with appropriate technologies and accessible through standard interfaces, and where different peer services can be repeatedly composed to form some useful higher level service. Communication between peer services at any level should be supported by a homecare-services bus capable of coping with different communication types such as calls, events and streams. Advisor(s) Dr. ir. M.J. van Sinderen (Marten) Prof. dr. R.J. Wieringa (Roel) Duration 2009- 2013 Project U-Care - User-tailored Care services platform Funding institution IOP Generieke Communicatie Strategic Research Orientation ASSIST - Applied Science of Services for Information Society Technologies Links to relevant web pages: http://is.ewi.utwente.nl/ http://ucare.ewi.utwente.nl/ http://wwwhome.ewi.utwente.nl/~zarghamia/ Pictures