15th FRUCT Conference 27-31 October 2014
Decentralised Approach to Provision of Home Services FRUCT 2014
Finnish-Russian University Cooperation in Telecommunications
Vadym Kramar, Markku Korhonen
Oulu University of Applied Sciences Oulu, Finland
Serge Smidtas
VisAge CameraContact Guéret, France
Marjo Rauhala
Vienna University of Technology Vienna, Austria
Abstract—This paper introduces another approach that addresses interoperability in AAL domain, the Decentralised Service Delivery Architecture. The approach was developed Within the Advanced Support for Independent Living; Hu- man Lifecycle Approach in Senior Housing (Lily) project, funded by the Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme. The approach has a decentralised architecture and therefore dif- fers from traditional approaches where services are provi- sioned services via central nodes, such as 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 crite- ria, and thus provisioned to inhabitants of intelligent envi- ronments. The paper presents certain particularities of the architecture and highlights important associated aspects, such as ethics and trust.