Authors:
Philipp Nieke
1
;
Sten Hanke
1
;
Christopher Mayer
1
;
Andreas Hochgatterer
1
and
Stefan Sauermann
2
Affiliations:
1
AIT Austrian Institut of Technology GmbH, Biomedical Systems, Austria
;
2
University of Applied Sciences Technikum Vienna, Biomedical Engineering, Austria
Keyword(s):
Ambient Assisted Living, AAL, ISO/IEEE 11073, Interoperability, Standardization.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
;
Data Engineering
;
Development of Assistive Technology
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Health Information Systems
;
ICT, Ageing and Disability
;
Integration/Interoperability
;
Interoperability
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Mobile Technologies
;
Mobile Technologies for Healthcare Applications
;
Neural Rehabilitation
;
Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Sensor Networks
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
In the process of developing projects in Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), it is very important to avoid isolated and proprietary applications in the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure. Therefore standardization committees try to close the gap between these applications in developing appropriate standards for communication and software-architectures. The ISO/IEEE 11073 standard family and especially the standard specialization ”ISO/IEEE 11073-10471, Independent Living Activity Hub” is the key for establishing interoperability in AAL. The scope is to establish a common software-architecture and communication between agents (any form of medical devices, e.g. Independent Living Activity Hub which represents a sensor network) and managers (software-tool for receiving data; e.g. sensor-data). Consequently the integration of different sensor-networks (agents) from different manufacturers to an ISO/IEEE 11073 manager could be achieved by plug & play interoperability if the agents are b
uilt up according to the standard guidelines. However, this study showed that it is possible to apply the standard to existing sensor-networks by designing the agent with appropriate mapping methods between manufacturer- and ISO/IEEE 11073 nomenclature. The flexible bodywork of the designed agent allows its application and use for specific sensor networks from different manufacturers without great effort, whereas the ”once-implemented manager” can be applied for any ISO/IEEE 11073-10471 Independent Living Activity Hub.
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