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Chapter 15
Situation-Aware Ambient
Assisted Living and Ambient
Intelligence Data Integration
for Efficient Eldercare
Werner Kurschl
Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Mario Buchmayr
Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Barbara Franz
Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Margit Mayr
Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Austria
ABSTRACT
Pervasive healthcare systems are designed to support elderly and care-dependent people to live an in-
dependent life. Recent developments are driven by technological advances of wireless sensor networks
and mobile devices, which ease their application in the health- and homecare domain. The integration
into pervasive healthcare systems helps to improve the impact and the efficiency of eldercare, while
keeping financial efforts at a moderate level. The importance of these issues leads to the development
of systems covering situation-aware, ambient assisted living and health data exchange between care
institutions and ambient assistant solutions. Various projects within the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)
domain have proven that remarkable results can be achieved by using wireless sensor technology and
mobile devices for data collection, but there are still several problems concerning the exchange and
integration of healthcare data. This chapter gives an overview about AAL, healthcare related standards,
and state of the art approaches for data integration. In addition, best practice projects, which deal with
patient-oriented care information, ambient assisted living, as well as ambient intelligence, are covered.
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