An Extensible System for Sleep Activity Pattern Monitoring

For home based health-care and wellness management the considerations of extensibility and personalization are very important. In this paper we present an architectural framework for health-care and wellness management, and illustrate its use with a sleep activity pattern monitoring application. The key benefits of our architectural framework are that new sensors and sensing modalities as well as other hardware devices may be readily incorporated in an incremental manner. Software modules, such as signal processing algorithms and self-help oriented User Interfaces may be easily added, and the responses can be personalized and customized to suit the needs of patient, caregiver or doctor.