Improving our understanding of sleep physiology and pathophysiology is an important goal for both medical and general wellness reasons. Although the gold standard for assessing sleep remains the laboratory polysomnogram, there is an increasing interest in portable monitoring devices that provide the opportunity for assessing sleep in real-world environments such as the home. Portable devices al...

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Recently, advancements of the wireless communication and micro electronic technologies enable the inter-connection between devices and automatic operations within the home areas. Additionally, sensing physical information based on the wireless sensor device helps more intelligent services to incorporate the ubiquitous paradigm into the home networks. In this paper, we address the new smart devi...

The rapid growth of the World Wide Web, has made the web is not just use for delivering information. Currently, Web is used to carry information in a borderless way since one of its features is stateless. The extension of the technology has discovered a web also could delivered signals. Since the introduction to the smart home concept, a web plays an important roles to control almost every elec...

The standard of care for lymphedema encompasses risk reduction, early detection, Phase-I Complete Decongestive Therapy in a clinical setting, and Phase-II Self Management at home. This review discusses these lymphedema treatment components, including relevant physiological aspects that form the basis of treatment and an understanding of which are critical to successful outcomes. Phase-I therapy...

The Internet of things (IoT) has been trending recently as a new technology for connecting devices to the Internet, from simple sensors or actuators more powerful components with processing and prediction capabilities. Although home automation is not new, IoT boosted domotics by allowing remote management security energy through mobile phones providing (smart) natural methods interaction (Edu e...