The platform layer - Sensing and Monitoring Sample Clauses

The platform layer - Sensing and Monitoring. A basic function of an AmI-like environment is monitoring the environment itself and people in it. Key elements are sensors, including personal sensors that can be integrated within an appropriate framework together with ambient sensors and distributed data sources, with the goal to provide the necessary information in a timely, secure and reliable manner and to enable continuous well-being assessment. Sensors may include: • Pulse & heart rate; • Breathing and blood oxygen (saturation); • Body temperature; • Blood pressure; • Blood sugar; • Walking motion; • Acceleration (for falls); • Ambient temperature and humidity; • Gas sensors (CO, CO2, …); • Location (using GPS, cellular, or LR-WPAN based location systems); • User activated sensor. Particular important are the following issues: • Adoption of solutions that enable “invisible” and seamless body sensors; • Building technologies feasible for miniaturization and attachable to body, clothes and garments, especially electronic circuitry built on flexible materials; • Adoption of technologies with a very low power;