Authors:
Jaime Martín
1
;
Mario Ibañez
1
;
Natividad Martínez Madrid
1
and
Ralf Seepold
2
Affiliations:
1
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
;
2
Hochschule Konstanz (HTWG), University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Keyword(s):
UPnP, Video, Home healthcare, Telecare, Elderly people, HL7, OSGi.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Cloud Computing
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
;
Data Engineering
;
e-Business
;
e-Health
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
ICT, Ageing and Disability
;
Integration/Interoperability
;
Interoperability
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Platforms and Applications
;
Sensor Networks
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
This paper presents a home healthcare system that implements videoconference calls based on the UPnP standard to support telecare services. Firstly, it reviews the state of the art of telecare and applied technologies. Our approach describes a system architecture that provides capabilities to integrate different telecare services in a residential gateway. It addresses the challenge of the integration of patient relatives and friends in the telecare service to enhance the user’s confidence. We propose a videoconference system to communicate healthcare actors (patient, nurse, doctor and relatives) based on a widespread standard that enables an automatic discovery of multimedia services and presents a seamless streaming negotiation.