Research on smart environments saturated with ubiquitous computing devices is rapidly advancing while raising serious privacy issues. According to recent studies, privacy concerns significantly hinder widespread adoption of smart home technologies. Previous work has shown that it is possible to infer the activities of daily living within environments equipped with wireless sensors by monitoring...

With the recent trends in Ubiquitous technology and the adaptation of further advancement in personal healthcare system leads to develop some application which can work independent and user can operate that application without much interference of physician or any specialist user. To meet these needs, in this paper progressive middleware architecture for personal healthcare information system i...

C broadband mobile electronics with ultralow-power consumption and miniaturization in implantable semiconductor radio transceiver chips and sensors, healthcare and wellness is rapidly changing across the world. Consequently, new services and applications are emerging that will enable real-time medical sensing and treatment from a distance. Thus, taking ubiquitous medical care to a new level. La...

Grids can form the basis for pervasive computing due to their ability of being open, scalable, and flexible to various changes (from topology changes to unpredicted failures of nodes). However, such environments are prone to failures due to their nature and need a certain level of reliability in order to provide viable and commercially exploitable solutions. This is causing nowadays a significa...

Assisted Cognition systems provide active cognitive aids for people with reduced memory and problem-solving abilities due to Alzheimer’s Disease or other disorders. Two concrete examples of the Assisted Cognition systems we are developing are an ACTIVITY COMPASS that helps reduce spatial disorientation both inside and outside the home, and an ADL PROMPTER that helps patients carry out multi-ste...

The increasing health problems of the western world underline the need to encourage daily exercise and activity. This paper explores the use of an unaugmented everyday device—the mobile phone—to support increased socialization around exercise and activity. We describe an application that tracks the daily exercise activities of people carrying phones, using fluctuation in signal strength to esti...