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. 2022 Nov 19;22(22):8961.
doi: 10.3390/s22228961.

Design and Development of a Heterogeneous Active Assisted Living Solution for Monitoring and Following Up with Chronic Heart Failure Patients in Spain

Francisco José Melero-Muñoz  1   2 , María Victoria Bueno-Delgado  2   3 , Ramón Martínez-Carreras  2 , Rafael Maestre-Ferriz  1 , Miguel Ángel Beteta-Medina  1 , Tomás Puebla-Martínez  1 , Andrés Lorenzo Bleda-Tomás  1 , Gorka Sánchez-Nanclares  4 , Ricardo Pérez-de-Zabala  5 , Mónica Álvarez-Leon  6
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Design and Development of a Heterogeneous Active Assisted Living Solution for Monitoring and Following Up with Chronic Heart Failure Patients in Spain

Francisco José Melero-Muñoz et al. Sensors (Basel). .

Abstract

Heart failure is the most common disease among elderly people, and the risk increases with age. The use of smart Internet of Things (IoT) systems for monitoring patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) in a non-intrusive manner can result in better control of the disease, improving proactive healthcare through real-time and historical patient's data, promoting self-care in patients, reducing unneeded interaction between patients and doctors, reducing the number of hospitalizations and saving healthcare costs. This work presents an active assisted living (AAL) solution based on the IoT to provide a tele-assistance platform for CHF patients from the public health service of the region of Murcia in Spain, with formal and informal caregivers and health professionals also as key actors. In this article, we have detailed the methodology, results, and conclusions of the prevalidation phase for the set of IoT technologies to be integrated in the AAL platform, the first mandatory step before the deployment of a large-scale pilot that will lead to improving the innovation of the system from its current technology readiness level to the market. The work presented, in the framework of the H2020 Pharaon project, aims to serve as inspiration to the R&D community for the design, development, and deployment of AAL solutions based on heterogeneous IoT technologies, or similar approaches, for smart healthcare solutions in real healthcare institutions.

Keywords: AAL; H2020; IoT; chronic heart failure; deployment; healthcare; large-scale pilot; prevalidation.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Scenarios of the Pharaon Murcia pilot.
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Work sequence within the Pharaon Murcia pilot.
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Representation of the Pharaon Murcia Pilot goal model “Get involved in the health and care process” [29].
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Overview of scenarios, technologies, and platform of the Pharaon Murcia pilot.
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User interfaces of the technologies used in the Pharaon Murcia Pilot.
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Murcia pilot high-level architecture.
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Pharaon architecture view model.
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Prevalidation protocol followed by the six Pharaon pilots.
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