Telemonitoring of patients at home: a software agent approach
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Telemonitoring of patients at home: a software agent approach
To address the issue of the increasing social, economical and medical needs of maintaining at home people in loss of autonomy while preserving privacy and quality of life, the authors present a software agent based telemonitoring and alarm raising system. The article describes the overall architecture, the various components of the model, and the methodology that has been used. It specifically ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0169-2607
DOI: 10.1016/s0169-2607(02)00161-x