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Intelligent Agents and Wireless Sensor Networks: A Healthcare Telemonitoring System

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Trends in Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing ((AINSC,volume 71))

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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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  1. Departamento de Informática y Automática, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced, s/n, 37008, Salamanca, Spain

    Ricardo S. Alonso, Carolina Zato, Oscar Gil & Fernando De la Prieta

  2. E.T.S.I. de Telecomunicación, Universidad de Valladolid, Camino Viejo del Cementerio s/n, 47011, Valladolid, Spain

    Oscar García

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  1. Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Maison Jean Kuntzmann, 110 av. de la Chimie, F-38041, Grenoble, France

    Yves Demazeau

  2. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Universiteit Utrecht Centrumgebouw Noord, office A117, Padualaan 14, De Uitho, 3584CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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  3. Departamento de Informática y Automática, Facultad de Ciencias , Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced S/N, 37008, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan M. Corchado

  4. Escuela Universitaria de Informática, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Compañía 5, 37002, Salamanca, Spain

    Javier Bajo

  5. ETSI Informática, Universidad de Sevilla, Avda. Reina Mercedes s/n, 41012, Sevilla, Spain

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  6. Departamento de Informática y Automática Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced S/N, 37008, Salamanca, Spain

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  7. Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Informática, Edificio Politécnico, Despacho 408, Campus Universitario As Lagoas s/n, 32004, Ourense, Spain

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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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