title: An Internet of Things platform architecture for supporting ambient assisted living environments.
abstract: Internet of Things (IoT) is the logical further development of today's Internet, enabling a huge amount of devices to communicate, compute, sense and act. IoT sensors placed in Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) environments, enable the context awareness and allow the support of the elderly in their daily routines, ultimately allowing an independent and safe lifestyle. The vast amount of data that are generated and exchanged between the IoT nodes require innovative context modeling approaches that go beyond currently used models. Current paper presents and evaluates an open interoperable platform architecture in order to utilize the technical characteristics of IoT and handle the large amount of generated data, as a solution to the technical requirements of AAL applications.
authors.forename: Charalampos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tsirmpas
authors.forename: Ioannis
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kouris
authors.forename: Athanasios
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Anastasiou
authors.forename: Kostas
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Giokas
authors.forename: Dimitra
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Iliopoulou
authors.forename: Dimitris
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Koutsouris
mesh_terms: D040561:Assisted Living Facilities; D003142:Communication; D003199:Computer Systems; D004779:Environment Design; D006801:Humans; D057187:Independent Living; D020407:Internet; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory; D012984:Software; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods
keywords: Internet of Things; ambient assisted living; context aware; telemonitoring