期刊名称：Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology
印刷版ISSN：1992-8645
电子版ISSN：1817-3195
出版年度：2011
卷号：31
期号：2
页码：91-99
出版社：Journal of Theoretical and Applied
摘要：Without an iota of doubt, the healthcare industry is the largest one across the globe not only in market value but also in profusely and powerfully applying a bevy of robust and resilient information and communication technologies (ICT) in order to do away with scores of manual tasks. As known widely, manual implementation and operation are liable for errors and faults. Being a life-critical domain, every promising and potential technology is being readily recognized and rewarded in the healthcare field. Precisely speaking, the hot healthcare field has become the dominant and prominent ICT-driven discipline today and tomorrow is still brighter. Electronics and instrumentation disciplines are also tremendously contributing for the unprecedented success and growth of the healthcare domain. The extensive leverage and usage of competent techniques, tips and tools for bringing in comprehensive and compact automation, optimization, and transformation in the healthcare landscape has been going successfully for a long time now. And this positive and progressive trend is all set to go further broader and deeper with the easy availability on-demand, online, dynamic, real-time, and adaptive computing systems. The prevailing trend clearly indicates that there would be myriad dramatic and drastic changes in the healthcare field with the insights-driven adoption of information technology (IT) and nanotechnology together and hence the ensuing healthcare systems would be cognition-attached, cloud-based, process-centric, service-oriented and knowledge-driven. With the persistent increase in aging population especially in developed countries, heightened healthcare costs, error-prone healthcare operations and the maturity and stability of medical care technologies, IT-enabled medical care is all set to reach newer heights in the days to unfold. This paper describes a prototype medical system, which could effectively monitor any patient�s health parameters such as pulse, blood pressure etc., administer salubrious drugs automatically and inform the doctor and the caretaker about the current conditions of the patient in time. All kinds of interactions are controlled ubiquitously by using an Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) system. The Open Service Gateway Initiative (OSGi) standard and one of its open source implementation is prescribed as the middleware for effectively discovering, connecting, and mediating all kinds of Ambient Sensor devices. In order to deliver the prescribed drugs dynamically to the patient, a new device has been freshly designed and we have named it as �Ubiquitous Drug Injector (UDI)�. In addition to this, a pervasive device is being provided for each patient and this device could receive inputs from the ambient devices and enable in correctly inferring the condition of the patient. The insights retrieved, processed and analyzed facilitate in administering appropriate drugs well in time. The whole system designed and prototyped is a highly scalable healthcare system with varying control flows. This work lays a strong and sustainable foundation in evolving novel techniques for next-generation healthcare.
关键词：Ambient Assisted living (AAL); Healthcare; Knopflerfish; Open Service Gateway Initiative (OSGi); Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)
