Framework of ubiquitous healthcare system based on cloud computing for elderly living

This work discusses a integrating framework on health care, home safety, convenience and entertainment for elderly living. Since the increasing number of elderly people will live alone, yet requires more smart and automation home services, the proposed framework attempts to develop a smart living helper to improve their later life. Two systems are proposed in the Ubiquitous Healthcare System (UHS) framework including, the Web-based User Remote Management Service (WURMS) and the Multimodal Interactive Computation Services (MICS). The proposed systems are coordinating couple existing audio-visual and communication techniques, including the speech/sound recognition, the speaker identification, the face identification, the sound source estimation, the text to speech (TTS) and the event recognition. For elders' friendly interfaces, the proposed services include, (1) Home care services, (2) Emergency assistance, (3) Family interaction, (4) Remote medical services, (5) Security monitoring, and (6) Information services, to improve the elders' life in more convenience.