TY  - CONF
ID  - 20861002
AU  - Zheng, Cheng
AU  - Shen, Weiming
AU  - Xue, Henry
AU  - Hao, Qi
T1  - A heterogeneous sensors integration platform for independent living spaces
C8  - Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD 2012)
T3  - 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD 2012), 23-25 May 2012, Wuhan, China
PB  - IEEE
SP  - 616
EP  - 621
PY  - 2012
KW  - independent living spaces; cross-language services; Apache Thrift; sensors integration; COTS sensors and devices; data collection
N2  - Continual advances in modern technologies make it feasible to build intelligent independent living spaces for the elderly and disabled. In the past few years, various sensors and medical devices have been commercially available for home healthcare applications, but still there is a lack of effort on integrating heterogeneous commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) sensors from various vendors to collect data and provide more flexibility in product selection for customers. In order to address this issue, this paper presents a heterogeneous sensors integration platform for independent living spaces. The proposed platform, which is based on Apache Thrift, can accomplish the tasks of data collection, organization, and storage through cross-language services. A prototype system has been implemented and integrated into an independent living space monitoring system to validate the proposed approach.
M1  - 54596
DO  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CSCWD.2012.6221882
U3  - NRC Institute for Research in Construction
U3  - Institut de recherche en construction du CNRC (IRC-IRC)
U3  - National Research Council Canada
U3  - Conseil national de recherches Canada (CNRC-NRC)
SN  - 978-1-4673-1212-7
ER  -