Diego Gachet Páez

Big Data and IoT for Chronic Patients Monitoring

Recent data of the European Union reveals that the main chronic pathologies are the Cardiovascular Disease (CVD), the main cause of death in Europe, and respiratory diseases, specially the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Each year CVD causes over 4 million deaths in Europe alone and over 1.9 million deaths in the European Union (EU). According to the WHO (World Health Organization), in 2030 COPD will be the third leading cause of death, and the first cause of sanitary costs in Europe, due to the profiles of the expenses in health sector and the long time expenses by age groups and their important associate morbidity. New medical applications based on remote monitoring can help treat those chronic diseases but significantly will increase the volume of health information to manage, including data from medical and biological sensors, being then necessary to process this huge volume of data using techniques from Big Data. In this paper we propose one potential solution for creating those new services, based on Big Data processing and IoT concepts.

Personalized Health Care System with Virtual Reality Rehabilitation and Appropriate Information for Seniors

The concept of the information society is now a common one, as opposed to the industrial society that dominated the economy during the last years. It is assumed that all sectors should have access to information and reap its benefits. Elderly people are, in this respect, a major challenge, due to their lack of interest in technological progress and their lack of knowledge regarding the potential benefits that information society technologies might have on their lives. The Naviga Project (An Open and Adaptable Platform for the Elderly and Persons with Disability to Access the Information Society) is a European effort, whose main goal is to design and develop a technological platform allowing elder people and persons with disability to access the internet and the information society. Naviga also allows the creation of services targeted to social networks, mind training and personalized health care. In this paper we focus on the health care and information services designed on the project, the technological platform developed and details of two representative elements, the virtual reality hand rehabilitation and the health information intelligent system.

Big Data Processing Using Wearable Devices for Wellbeing and Healthy Activities Promotion

The aging population and economic crisis specially in developed countries have as a consequence the reduction in funds dedicated to healthcare, is then desirable to optimize the costs of public and private healthcare systems reducing the affluence of chronic and dependent people to care centers; promoting healthy lifestyle and activities can allow people to avoid chronic diseases as for example hypertension. In this paper we describe a system for promoting an active and healthy lifestyle for people and to recommend with guidelines and valuable information about their habits. The proposed system is being developed around the Big Data parading using bio-signals sensors and machine learning algorithms for recommendations.

Identificación de sistemas dinámicos utilizando redes neuronales RBF

The identification of complex and non-linear plants plays an important role in the overall architecture of neurocontrol techniques as for example inverse control, direct and indirect neural adaptive control, etc. It is common within those approaches to use a Feedforward Neural Network (FNN) with Tapped Delay Line (TDL) or recurrent networks (Elman o Jordan) trained off-line to capture the system’s dynamics (direct or inverse) and use it in the control loop. In this paper, we present an identification schema based on Radial Basis Function (RBF) neural networks that is trained on-line and dynamically modify his number of nodes in the hidden layer, allowing a real-time implementation of the identifier in the control loop.

Integrating Personalized Health Care and Information Access for Elder People

The concept of the information society is now a common one, as opposed to the industrial society that dominated the economy during the last century. It is assumed that all sectors should have access to information and reap its benefits. Elder people are, in this respect, a major challenge, due to their lack of interest in technological progress and their lack of knowledge regarding the potential benefits that information society technologies might have on their lives. The Naviga Project (An Open and Adaptable Platform for the Elder people and Persons with Disability to Access the Information Society) is an European effort whose main goal is to design and develop a technological platform allowing elder people and persons with disability to access the Internet and the Information Society. NAVIGA also allows the creation of services targeted to social networks, mind training and personalized health care.

Healthy and wellbeing activities' promotion using a Big Data approach.

The aging population and economic crisis specially in developed countries have as a consequence the reduction in funds dedicated to health care; it is then desirable to optimize the costs of public and private healthcare systems, reducing the affluence of chronic and dependent people to care centers; promoting healthy lifestyle and activities can allow people to avoid chronic diseases as for example hypertension. In this article, we describe a system for promoting an active and healthy lifestyle for people and to recommend with guidelines and valuable information about their habits. The proposed system is being developed around the Big Data paradigm using bio-signal sensors and machine-learning algorithms for recommendations.

Highly Personalized Health Services Using Cloud and Sensors

In a society characterized by aging population and economical crisis it is desirable to reduce the costs of public healthcare systems. It is increasingly necessary to streamline the health system resources leading to the development of new medical services such as telemedicine, monitoring of chronic patients, personalized health services, creating new services for dependants, etc. Those new application and services will significantly increasing the volume of health information to manage, including data from medical and biological sensors, contextual information, health records, reference information, etc., which in turn requires the availability of health applications anywhere, at any time and also access to medical information must be pervasive and mobile. In this paper we propose one potential solution for creating those new services based on cloud computing and vital signs sensors.

Improving Health Services Using Cloud Computing, Big Data and Wireless Sensors

In a society characterized by aging population and economical crisis it is desirable to reduce the costs of public healthcare systems. It is increasingly necessary to streamline the health system resources leading to the development of new medical services such as telemedicine, monitoring of chronic patients, personalized health services, creating new services for dependants, etc. Those new application and services will significantly increasing the volume of health information to manage, including data from medical and biological sensors, contextual information, health records, reference information, etc., which in turn requires the availability of health applications anywhere, at any time and also access to medical information must be pervasive and mobile. In this paper we propose one potential solution for creating those new services, especially in outdoors environments, based on cloud computing and vital signs monitoring.

An Open and Adaptable Platform for the elderly people and persons with disability to access the Information Society. The Naviga project

NAVIGA is an European project whose main goal is to design and develop a technological platform allowing elderly people and persons with disability to access the Internet and the Information Society through an innovative and adaptable navigator. NAVIGA also allows the creation of services targeted to social networks, mind training and personalized health care.