Enhanced Living Environments: Algorithms, Architectures, Platforms, and Systems

339 Pages·2019·33.096 MB·English

by  Ivan Ganchev, Nuno M. Garcia, Ciprian Dobre, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, Rossitza Goleva

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Enhanced Living
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Algorithms, Architectures, Platforms,
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UniversityofLimerick UniversityPolitehnicaofBucharest
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Plovdiv,Bulgaria andDevelopmentinInformatics
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UniversityofNicosia
BulgarianAcademyofSciences
Sofia,Bulgaria Nicosia,Cyprus
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Ivan Ganchev
Nuno M. Garcia
Ciprian Dobre
Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis
Rossitza Goleva
Foreword
This book is one of the final dissemination activities of the COST Action IC1303
“Algorithms, Architectures and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments
(AAPELE).” The main objective of this COST Action was to promote the synergy
between ambient assisted living (AAL) and smart enhanced living environments
(ELEs), based on the creation of a research and development (R&D) community of
scientists and entrepreneurs. AAPELE has ended with about 160 management com-
mitteemembersandsubstitutesfrom32countries,400+researchpapersandanalytical
reports published, three edited books, three special journal issues organized, and 56+
successful projects running (in parallel and/or as continuation) out of 100+ proposals
submitted. The aim of this final AAPELE book is to raise even more the awareness
of the academic and industrial communities of the AAL/ELE topic by taking into
account also the increasing interest of the end-users to be informed and be able to
self-managedifferentlivingissuesoftheirown.Thehighinterestandmultiplerunning
projectsinthesubjectareaaswellasthelargenumberofpilotplatformsdevelopedare
a good proof of the importance of this COST Action.
The COST Action AAPELE was supported by partners working in the following
areas: (1) analysis of medical data; (2) mesh networking; (3) quality of service
(QoS) and quality of experience (QoE) as well as capacity planning analysis; (4) user
behavior analysis and network traffic classification; (5) electronic health (eHealh) and
mobile health (mHealth); and (6) AAL in specific use-cases.
ThemaingoalofAAPELEwastopromoteinterdisciplinaryresearchonAAL/ELE
throughthecreationofanR&Dcommunityofscientistsandentrepreneurs,workingon
different aspects of corresponding algorithms, architectures, and platforms, having in
viewtheadvanceofthescienceinthisareaandthedevelopmentofnewandinnovative
solutions.
Toachievethisgoal,theCOSTActionAAPELEsetthefollowingmainobjectives:
1. To facilitate research on specific AAL/ELE problems related to information and
communications technologies (ICT), aiming for the development of new and
innovative solutions that are driven by the interest to produce marketable techno-
logical solutions that can be easily adopted by the users
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2. Tosynchronizeandbroadenthescientificactivitiesofallinvolvedpartnersworking
inthisfieldinaresearch-friendlyenvironment,whilealsoallowingmorecountries
and different types of organizations to contribute
3. To create and expand a European R&D community in the AAL/ELE area
The achieved impact of AAPELE can be summarized as follows:
(cid:129) Creation of an AAL/ELE community of scientists and entrepreneurs acting as a
critical mass of researchers with different scientific backgrounds
(cid:129) Broadening the AAL topic with the ELE concept
(cid:129) Collection of diverse data from medical, network, and protocol experiments for
further analysis
(cid:129) Application of different statistical tools for big data management in the AAL/ELE
area
(cid:129) End-user profiling for the purposes of AAL/ELE
(cid:129) Identification of a variety of AAL/ELE testing scenarios
(cid:129) Development of AAL platforms for conducting advanced experiments and case
studies in different ELEs
(cid:129) Conducting corresponding QoS and QoE analysis
(cid:129) DesigningandtestingdifferentICTinfrastructuresthatareabletointegratedifferent
types of devices (sensors, actuators, computers, mobile devices, etc.) from an
AAL/ELE service perspective
(cid:129) Researching on personalized, intelligent algorithms for use in AAL/ELE
(cid:129) Researchingonuserinterfacesandhuman–machineinteractions(HMI)withspecial
focus on older adults or disabled users
(cid:129) Studying and applying suitable (mobile) communications protocols for different
AAL/ELE applications
This book presents the final output from the AAPELE community and aims to
become a cookbook for further activities in the field.
November 2018 Nuno M. Garcia
Rossitza Goleva
Ivan Ganchev
Preface
The increase in medical expenses, due to societal issues such as demographic aging,
puts strong pressure on the sustainability of health and social care systems, labor
participation, and quality of life (QoL) for the elderly and people with disabilities. In
addition, the understanding of the need to have active living and aging, and the cor-
responding changes inwork and family life, hasset new challenges todevelopers and
suppliers of new services within personal living environments. In this sense, the
enhanced living environments(ELEs)encompassallinformationandcommunications
technology (ICT) achievements supporting true ambient assisted living (AAL). ELEs
promote the provision of infrastructures and services for independent or more auton-
omous living, via the seamless integration of ICT within homes and residences, thus
increasing the QoL for assisted people and autonomously maintaining their preferable
livingenvironmentaslongaspossible,withoutcausingdisruptioninthewebofsocial
and family interactions.
Different AAL/ELE technologies are aiming today at creating safe environments
around assisted people to help them maintain independent and active living. Most
efforts toward the realization of AAL/ELE systems are based on the development of
pervasive devices and the use of ambient intelligence to mix these devices together to
create a safe environment. There is a missing interaction of multiple stakeholders
needing to collaborate for ELEs, supporting a multitude of AAL services. There are
also barriers to innovation in the concerned market, the governments, and the
health-care sector that still do not take place at an appropriate scale.
Many fundamental issues in ELE remain open. Most of the current efforts still do
notfullyexpressthepowerofhumanbeingsandtheimportanceofsocialconnections.
Societal activities are less noticed as well. Effective ELE solutions require appropriate
ICTalgorithms,architectures,platforms,andsystems,aimingtoadvancethesciencein
this area and to develop new and innovative connected solutions. This book provides,
inthissense,aplatformforthedisseminationofresearchanddevelopment effortsand
for the presentation of advances in the AAL/ELE area that aim at addressing these
challenges.
Thebookaimstobecomeastate-of-the-artreference,discussingtheprogressmade,
as well as prompting future directions on theories, practices, standards, and strategies
that are related to AAL/ELE. It was prepared as a Final Publication of the COST
Action IC1303 “Algorithms, Architectures and Platforms for Enhanced Living Envi-
ronments (AAPELE).” The book can serve as a valuable reference for undergraduate
students, postgraduate students, educators, faculty members, researchers, engineers,
medical doctors, health-care organizations, insurance companies, and research strate-
gists working in this field.
The book chapters were collected through an open, but selective, three-stage
submission/review process. Initially, an open call for contributions was distributed
among the COST AAPELE community in the summer of 2017. As a result, 24