Russell

LiveNet

Incorporating new healthcare technologies for proactive health and elder care will become a major priority over the next decade, as medical care systems world-wide become strained by aging populations. The LiveNet platform is a flexible distributed mobile system that can be deployed for a variety of proactive health applications that can help reduce the strain on the healthcare industry. LiveNet enables a variety of large-scale wireless group applications by leveraging the availability of Linux-based PDA hardware combined with innovative open-source software and custom sensor hardware. The LiveNet system is based on the MIThril 2003 architecture, a proven accessible architecture that combines inexpensive commodity hardware, a flexible sensor/peripheral interconnection bus, and a powerful light-weight distributed sensing, classification, and inter-process communications software layer to facilitate the development of distributed real-time multimodal and context-aware applications. LiveNet also opens up the door for practical long-term continuous monitoring applications to identify physiological and behavioral trends that vary slowly with time. The system can also allow people to receive real-time feedback from their continuously monitored and analyzed health state, as well as communicate health information with care-givers and other members of an individual's social network for support and interaction.