Main description:

Enhanced living environments employ information and communications technologies to support true ambient assisted living for adults and people with disabilities. This book provides an overview of today's architectures, techniques, protocols, components, and cloud-based solutions related to ambient assisted living and enhanced living environments. Topics covered include: an introduction to enhanced living environments; pervasive sensing for social connectedness; ethics in information and communication technologies; service scenarios in smart personal environments; technological support to stress level monitoring; big data systems to improve healthcare information searching over the Internet; sensors for wireless body area networks; linear wireless sensor networks and protocols in next generation networks; model-compilation challenges for cyber-physical systems; health monitoring using wireless body area networks; wearable health care; and intelligent systems for after-stroke home rehabilitation.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction to enhanced living environments
Chapter 2: Enhanced living environments from the viewpoint of socioecological psychology
Chapter 3: Pervasive sensing for social connectedness
Chapter 4: Ethics in information and communication technologies: training the elderly in making gerontechnology accessible
Chapter 5: End-users' AAL and ELE service scenarios in smart personal environments
Chapter 6: Technological support to stress-level monitoring
Chapter 7: Big data healthcare system to improve healthcare information searching in the Internet
Chapter 8: Sensors for wireless body area networks
Chapter 9: AALaaS/ELEaaS platforms
Chapter 10: Linear wireless sensor networks and protocols in the next-generation networks
Chapter 11: Model-compilation challenges for cyber-physical systems
Chapter 12: Health monitoring using WBAN: topology design, routing and thermal issues
Chapter 13: Wearable health care: technology evolution, algorithms and needs
Chapter 14: Intelligent system for after-stroke home rehabilitation