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E-healthcare has acquired great importance in recent years and requires the development of innovative solutions. This paper presents a telemonitoring system aimed at enhancing remote healthcare for dependent people at their homes. The system deploys a Service-Oriented Architecture based platform over a heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks infrastructure. Furthermore, the information obtained by telemonitoring systems must be managed by intelligent and self-adaptable technologies to provide an adequate interaction between the users and their environment. In the proposed system, the WSNs platform is integrated with a multi-agent architecture so that information gathered by WSN nodes is managed by intelligent agents with reasoning mechanisms.
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Alonso, R.S., García, O., Zato, C., Gil, O., De la Prieta, F. (2010). Intelligent Agents and Wireless Sensor Networks: A Healthcare Telemonitoring System. In: Demazeau, Y., et al. Trends in Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 71. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12433-4_51
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