Cascaded WLAN-FWA Networking and Computing Architecture for Pervasive In-Home Healthcare

Jini Home Networking: A Step toward Pervasive Computing

I nternetworking services have come a long way since their inception in basic communication between two homogeneous computers located not far from each other. Today, intelligent devices can interact with each other anytime and anywhere in the world. Recent advances in technology—especially in wireless communication—have fueled the market for such devices. At the same time, decreasing processor ...

Pervasive Computing and Healthcare

A confluence of developments has led to the possibility of realizing a vision of pervasive healthcare. These include, but are not limited to, society becoming increasingly mobile, dramatic advances in various areas of technology and computer science, exponentially increasing healthcare costs coupled with workforce issues, the need to provide effective and efficient healthcare, and the change in...

Pervasive computing in the home and community

Intelligent systems for pervasive computing and social networking

Social networking systems and pervasive computingare two essential paradigms for systems for the future. Theformer are well established and in use daily by most users. Thelatter are equally important although the ideas here have nothad the same take up. The aim of the Societies project is tointegrate the two concepts in a seamless way to create a newtype of system with t...

Sensor Networks in Pervasive Healthcare Computing

Pervasive computing, in technological sense, presents a fusion of various geographically scattered devices and software modules integrated into systems, very diverse regarding the purpose, architecture, and the used technology. Ubiquitous computing is one of the most challenging areas of the distributed (medical) informatics today. Instead of the literal meaning of the term ubiquitous, which me...