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HoCaMA: Home Care Hybrid Multiagent Architecture

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Pervasive Computing

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Home Care is one of the main objectives of Ambient Intelligence. Nowadays, the disabled and elderly population, which represents a significant part of our society, requires novel solutions for providing home care in an effective way. In this chapter, we present HoCaMA, a hybrid multiagent architecture that facilitates remote monitoring and care services for disabled patients at their homes. HoCaMA combines multiagent systems and Web services to facilitate the communication and integration with multiple health care systems. In addition, HoCaMA focuses on the design of reactive agents capable of interacting with different sensors present in the environment, and incorporates a system of alerts through SMS and MMS mobile technologies. Finally, it uses Radio Frequency IDentification and JavaCard technologies to provide advanced location and identification systems, as well as automatic access control facilities. HoCaMA has been implemented in a real environment and the results obtained are presented within this chapter.

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This work has been partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology project TIN2006-14630-C03-03, the UPSA project U05EIA-07L01 and the Spanish Ministry of Labor and Social Security project “Plataforma inteligente para la gestión integral de residencia geriátricas.”

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  1. Norwegian Center of Excellence, Center of Excellence for Quantifiable Quality of Service, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, O.S. Bragstads Plass 2E, N-7491, Trondheim, Norway

    Juan A. Fraile, Javier Bajo, Ajith Abraham & Juan M. Corchado

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  1. Fac. Computers & Information, Cairo University, Ahmed Zewal Street 5, Giza, 12613, Egypt

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  2. School of Engineering &, Deakin University, Geelong, 3217, Australia

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  3. Technology, Norwegian University of Science &, O.S. Bragstads plass 2E, Trondheim, 7491, Norway

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Fraile, J.A., Bajo, J., Abraham, A., Corchado, J.M. (2009). HoCaMA: Home Care Hybrid Multiagent Architecture. In: Hassanien, AE., Abawajy, J., Abraham, A., Hagras, H. (eds) Pervasive Computing. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-599-4_12

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