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In 1995, the concept of “ubiquitous computing” was introduced by Weiser. A particular case is represented by ambient intelligence (AmI) which denotes an environment dedicated to supporting people’s everyday activities at home. Even more, another concept, ambient assisted living (AAL) was introduced for designating an AmI system oriented to support elderly or disabled people in their daily lives, allowing them to grow old in their homes or their familiar community as long as possible with a minimum intervention of a medical or social assistant. For this to be possible, latest hardware, software, and communication technologies need to work together. The core of any assistive system is represented by WSN (wireless sensor network). In this paper, a particular case of WSN is presented as a personal monitoring system. The main features of this system include: vital signs monitoring (heart rate, temperature—others may be added), fall detection, and pedometer. In addition, the system can send alerts to an emergency center in case anomalies are detected in subject’s normal behavior.
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Mocanu, Ş. (2016). Dedicated BSN for Personal Indoor Monitoring. In: Balas, V., C. Jain, L., Kovačević, B. (eds) Soft Computing Applications. SOFA 2014. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 356. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18296-4_23
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