Integration Between ATIoT Architecture and Wearable Device Applied to Assistive Technologies

The inclusion of people with disabilities and older people in society has made significant progress through the continued development of Assistive Technologies, standards, policies and guidelines combined with the use of Information and Communication Technologies. In this context, the emerging Internet of Things has a lot of tools to offer in order to promove and expand the use of assistive technologies. Medical and Assistive Technology IoT systems will play a fundamental role in health monitoring and rehabilitation, however these systems need to ensure privacy, reliable, secure and able to handle with big amount of data. This paper proposes the integration between an activity monitoring system and our IoT architecture for working with Assistive Technology applications. For the operation of the architecture infrastructure, some middleware platforms and frameworks are used to abstract the specificities of heterogeneous devices for applications and users, as well as to promote interoperability between them. (C) 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.