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Quality Model for CloudIot Applied in Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)

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Nowadays, CloudIoT is used in several domains. Among them, AAL applications, where it can support the monitoring of certain variables related to the wellbeing of older adults at real-time. They store and manage personal information about users and vital signs, which are essential to be transmitted securely and reliably. Then, this paper presents a quality model focused on the CloudIoT layers in Ambient Assisted Living. It evaluates security, usability, and reliability, applied on the AAL domain, and focused on each of CloudIoT layers: Cloud Computing, Fog Computing, and Edge Computing. Also, an empirical evaluation of the AAL applications evaluation process in CloudIoT is presented. This method was evaluated using the Method Evaluation Model (MEM), 15 experts in computer science participated in the evaluation, the obtained results show that people find that the method is useful, easy to use, and allows to evaluate the viability of CloudIoT applications in AAL.

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This work is part of the research projects: “Fog Computing applied to monitoring devices used in assisted living environments. Case study: platform for the elderly” and “Design of architectures and interaction models for assisted living environments for elderly people. Case study: ludic and social environments”. Hence, the authors thank to DIUC of Universidad de Cuenca for its academic and financial support.

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    María Caridad Cáceres, Daniel Peralta & Priscila Cedillo

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    Alexandra Bermeo, Cristina Sánchez-Zhunio & Priscila Cedillo

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Cáceres, M.C., Peralta, D., Bermeo, A., Sánchez-Zhunio, C., Cedillo, P. (2021). Quality Model for CloudIot Applied in Ambient Assisted Living (AAL). In: Salgado Guerrero, J.P., Chicaiza Espinosa, J., Cerrada Lozada, M., Berrezueta-Guzman, S. (eds) Information and Communication Technologies. TICEC 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1456. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89941-7_14

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