Abstract—Service composition schemes create high-level application services by combining several basic services. Service composition schemes for dynamic, open systems, such as th...
—The widespread use of tracking and localization systems may be hindered by centralized server platforms whose performance can hardly scale up to the needs of very large numbers ...
Marco Picone, Michele Amoretti, Francesco Zanichel...
—This paper describes a new embedded system, called iFall, for the detection of unexpected falls for elderly people. In combination with a new sensors system and the monitoring o...
This paper addresses quality vs. cost tradeoffs in multisensor pervasive spaces. Specifically, we focus on a case study that uses location sensing in instrumented pervasive spaces ...
—This paper introduces a new software development platform specifically designed for wireless health applications. Wireless health applications follow a unique paradigm encompas...
Jonathan Woodbridge, Hyduke Noshadi, Ani Nahapetia...
Abstract—We present WebPlug, a framework for the emerging Web of Things. It consists of several building blocks which ease integration of things, including their sensors and actu...
—In this paper, we investigate how packet delays and losses affect the quality of target tracking. Specifically, we use Bayesian information of the posterior distribution of tar...
Wei Wei, Ting He, Chatschik Bisdikian, Dennis Goec...
Falls are a major health risk that diminish the quality of life among elderly people. With the elderly population surging, especially with aging "baby boomers", fall dete...