A Distributed Multiagent System Architecture for Body Area Networks Applied to Healthcare Monitoring
Joint Authors
Felisberto, Filipe
Laza, Rosalía
Fdez-Riverola, Florentino
Pereira, António
Source
Issue
Vol. 2015, Issue 2015 (31 Dec. 2015), pp.1-17, 17 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2015-03-22
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
17
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
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.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Felisberto, Filipe& Laza, Rosalía& Fdez-Riverola, Florentino& Pereira, António. 2015. A Distributed Multiagent System Architecture for Body Area Networks Applied to Healthcare Monitoring. BioMed Research International،Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-17.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1054570
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Felisberto, Filipe…[et al.]. A Distributed Multiagent System Architecture for Body Area Networks Applied to Healthcare Monitoring. BioMed Research International No. 2015 (2015), pp.1-17.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1054570
American Medical Association (AMA)
Felisberto, Filipe& Laza, Rosalía& Fdez-Riverola, Florentino& Pereira, António. A Distributed Multiagent System Architecture for Body Area Networks Applied to Healthcare Monitoring. BioMed Research International. 2015. Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-17.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1054570
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1054570