期刊名称：International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
印刷版ISSN：1550-1329
电子版ISSN：1550-1477
出版年度：2014
卷号：2014
DOI：10.1155/2014/503417
出版社：Hindawi Publishing Corporation
摘要：People worldwide are getting older and this fact
has pushed the need for designing new, more pervasive, and
possibly cost effective healthcare systems. In this field, distributed
and networked embedded systems, such as wireless sensor networks (WSNs), are the most appealing technology to achieve
continuous monitoring of aged people for their own safety,
without affecting their daily activities. This paper proposes recent
advancements in this field by introducing WSN4QoL, a Marie
Curie project which involves academic and industrial partners
from three EU countries. The project aims to propose new WSN-based
technologies to meet the specific requirements of pervasive
healthcare applications. In particular, in this paper, the system
architecture is presented to cope with the challenges imposed by
the specific application scenario. This includes a network coding
(NC) mechanism and a distributed localization solution that
have been implemented on WSN testbeds to achieve efficiency
in the communications and to enable indoor people tracking.
Preliminary results in a real environment show good system
performance that meet our expectations.
