A Distributed Multiagent System Architecture for Body Area Networks Applied to Healthcare Monitoring.

In the last years the area of health monitoring has grown significantly, attracting the attention of both academia and commercial sectors. At the same time, the availability of new biomedical sensors and suitable network protocols has led to the appearance of a new generation of wireless sensor netw...

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Publicado en:BioMed Research International Vol. 2015; pp. 1 - 18
Autores principales: Felisberto, Filipe, Laza, Rosalía, Fdez-Riverola, Florentino, Pereira, António
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell 4/5/2015
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          Felisberto, Filipe
          Laza, Rosalía
          Fdez-Riverola, Florentino
          Pereira, António
        affil: Fundação Para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Foundation for Science and Technology, 1249-074 Lisbon, Portugal
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          Wireless Local Area Networks
          Monitoring, Physiologic Methods
          Monitoring, Physiologic Equipment and Supplies
          Health Care Delivery
          Vital Signs Evaluation
          Movement Evaluation
          Posture Evaluation
          Accidents Prevention and Control
          Biosensors
          Activities of Daily Living Evaluation
          Health Informatics
          Body Surface Area
          Systems Development
          Risk Management
          Motion Analysis Systems
      ab: In the last years the area of health monitoring has grown significantly, attracting the attention of both academia and commercial sectors. At the same time, the availability of new biomedical sensors and suitable network protocols has led to the appearance of a new generation of wireless sensor networks, the so-called wireless body area networks. Nowadays, these networks are routinely used for continuous monitoring of vital parameters, movement, and the surrounding environment of people, but the large volume of data generated in different locations represents a major obstacle for the appropriate design, development, and deployment of more elaborated intelligent systems. In this context, we present an open and distributed architecture based on a multiagent system for recognizing human movements, identifying human postures, and detecting harmful activities. The proposed system evolved from a single node for fall detection to a multisensor hardware solution capable of identifying unhampered falls and analyzing the users’ movement. The experiments carried out contemplate two different scenarios and demonstrate the accuracy of our proposal as a real distributed movement monitoring and accident detection system. Moreover, we also characterize its performance, enabling future analyses and comparisons with similar approaches.
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