Decentralised Approach to Provision of Home Services

Abstract

This paper introduces an approach that addresses interoperability in AAL domain, the Decentralised Service Delivery Architecture. The approach was developed Within the Advanced Support for Independent Living; Human Lifecycle Approach in Senior Housing (Lily) project, funded in the Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme. The approach has a decentralised architecture and therefore differsfrom traditional approaches where services are provisioned via central nodes as via service portals or hubs, dedicated home platforms or systems. The idea of the architecture is to use linked descriptions of samples of service-product continuum that can be discovered using certain criteria, and thus provisioned to inhabitants of intelligent environments. The paper describes the Smart Living concept under which the architecture takes a place, presents some particularities of the architecture and systems that utilise it - HoviMestari and VisAge, and introduces Integration Levels and service templates with respect to the architecture.