Smartphone Homecare Monitoring of Hearts

Pervasive Homecare Monitoring Technologies and Applications

Smartphone-powered citizen science for bioacoustic monitoring

An initial classifier considers the main frequency component of the call, centered around 13.5 kHz and spanning mainly between 11 and 17 kHz. The ratio between this and a range where little noise is present (8–9 kHz) is a measure of the acoustic energy of the cicada call, as can be defined as: • Only cicada native to the UK • Only present in the New Forest • High pitched call at ~ 13.5 kHz • Di...

Implicit Night Sleep Monitoring Using Smartphone

Recent studies show that many people nowadays suffer from sleep disorders, which can severely threaten the public health. Sleep monitoring could play an important role; since it makes it possible to recognize them at the early stages and prevent them. Moreover, there are sort of methods, devices and special sensors as well as mobile phone applications, which try to realize the demand for sleep ...

Definition of a Pervasive Architecture for a Central Monitoring of Homecare Systems

Every year the queues in hospitals publics and privates grows due to, among others, the increasing of the world population and the delay in the patients service. This is a serious problem faced by administrators of hospitals, which believe that it is increasingly difficult to offer a service of quality to those who search for them. One of the ways to decrease these queues is through the develop...

4. Discovering Homecare Services

Future homecare networks will consist of a very wide range of embedded services and software that will often rely on numerous other components to achieve their tasks. They will rarely operate in a self sufficient manner. The ability to discover and use services is not however a trivial task. Services may provide raw data, such as temperature readings, or higher contextual data, such as user act...