Enhanced Living Environments

Enhanced living environments employ information and communications technologies to support true ambient assisted living for adults and people with disabilities. Infrastructure and services for autonomous living are provided via the seamless integration of ICT within homes and residences, and through new and innovative connected solutions, particularly in the area of pervasive and mobile systems.

This book provides an overview of today's architectures, techniques, protocols, components, and cloud-based solutions related to ambient assisted living and enhanced living environments. Topics covered include: an introduction to enhanced living environments; pervasive sensing for social connectedness; ethics in information and communication technologies; service scenarios in smart personal environments; technological support to stress level monitoring; big data systems to improve healthcare information searching over the internet; sensors for wireless body area networks; linear wireless sensor networks and protocols in next generation networks; model-compilation challenges for cyber-physical systems; health monitoring using WBAN; wearable health care; and intelligent systems for after-stroke home rehabilitation.