The introduction of sensor technology in our daily lives has brought comfort, convenience, and improved health over the past few decades. Technological advances further expanded use medical sensors by reducing their size costs. Medical improve intelligence capabilities healthcare services including, remote monitoring, surgical procedures, therapy, rehabilitation. We present a comprehensive revi...

With the pervasiveness of smart phones and the advance of wireless body sensor networks (BSNs), mobile Healthcare (m-Healthcare), which extends the operation of Healthcare provider into a pervasive environment for better health monitoring, has attracted considerable interest recently. However, the flourish of m-Healthcare still faces many challenges including information security and privacy pr...

This paper analyses equity in health and healthcare utilization in Afghanistan based on a representative national household survey. Equitable access is a cornerstone of the Afghan health policy. We measured socioeconomic-related equity in access to public health care, using disability--because people with disabilities are poorer and more likely to use health care--and a concentration index (CI)...

Healthcare Systems (HCSs) throughout the world undergo important changes driven by aging populations and advances in biomedical technologies. At the same time, in the current economic climate, many Western countries are struggling to reduce public spending on all kinds of services, including healthcare. With this tension between tightening budgets and skyrocketing costs, many countries are seek...

Humidity sensing technology is critical to a wide range of applications, including HVAC and refrigeration, healthcare equipment, such as CPAP machines and ventilators, asset tracking and storage devices for the food and pharmaceutical industries, industrial control systems, meteorological instruments, automotive climate control and defogging, and mobile computing devices. Despite its pervasive ...

Context awareness in Body Sensor Networks (BSNs) has the significance of associating physiological user activity and the environment to the sensed signals of the user. The context information derived from a BSN can be used in pervasive healthcare monitoring for relating importance to events and specifically for accurate episode detection. In this paper, we address the issue of context-aware sen...

Radio spectrum has increasingly become a strategic scarce resource in the digital world. The demand for pervasive wireless connectivity has exploded driven by smart devices and the consumption of video and Internet on the move as well as innovative services in various sectors such as transport, healthcare or energy. The Digital Agenda for Europe (DAE) and the Radio Spectrum Policy Programme (RS...

Logistic processes such as fleet management and tracking of assets deeply rely on Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication services. In recent years, M2M communication is being considered as one of the most technologies that will be dominating future intelligent pervasive applications. The wide application area of mobile M2M communications includes logistics, smart metering, e-healthcare, surveil...

We briefly outline some of the paths being explored within two recently initiated research projects on Computer Supported Mobile Adaptive Business Processes (CosmoBiz) and Trustworthy Pervasive Healthcare Services (TrustCare) to provide flexible process languages and models that allow seamless, trustworthy distribution and mobility of workflows and business process. In particular, we consider h...