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Digital Home-Monitoring of Patients after Kidney Transplantation: The MACCS Platform

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Interoperability services in the MPOWER Ambient Assisted Living platform.

Marius Mikalsen¹, Sten Hanke, Thomas Fuxreiter

¹SINTEF ICT, Trondheim, NO-7465, Norway. marius.mikalsen@sintef.no

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Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) systems require stakeholder cooperation. This work developed open-source interoperability services using service-oriented architectures and web services to enhance AAL platform integration.

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Digital Home-Monitoring of Patients after Kidney Transplantation: The MACCS Platform

Digital Home-Monitoring of Patients after Kidney Transplantation: The MACCS Platform

Published on: April 12, 2021

Area of Science:

Gerontology
Computer Science
Health Informatics

Background:

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) systems are crucial for supporting ageing populations and individuals with cognitive disabilities.
Effective AAL systems necessitate seamless cooperation among diverse stakeholders involved in the care process.
Existing AAL platforms often lack the necessary interoperability to facilitate this cooperation.

Purpose of the Study:

To design and implement interoperability services for AAL systems.
To address the challenge of stakeholder cooperation within AAL platforms.
To provide freely available, open-source solutions for AAL system integration.

Main Methods:

Utilized patterns and service-oriented architectures (SOA).
Implemented web services and XML Schema Definition (XSD) transformations.
Developed interoperability services within the EU IST MPOWER project framework.

Main Results:

Successfully designed and implemented interoperability services.
Demonstrated the feasibility of integrating diverse stakeholders through enhanced service platforms.
Made the developed services available as open-source under the MIT license.

Conclusions:

Interoperability services are essential for effective Ambient Assisted Living systems.
Service-oriented architectures and web services provide a robust foundation for AAL integration.
Open-source solutions can accelerate the adoption and development of advanced AAL platforms.