A Methodology for an Architecture of Pervasive Systems to Homecare Environments

These days, queues in hospitals grows due to, among others, the increasing of world population and delay in patient's attendance. One way of solving this problem is through the development of systems that ensure treatment directly in the house of patients. These systems help to decrease queues and improve attendance of those who goes to hospitals looking for assistance. In this paper we present the modeling of architecture for pervasive systems to homecare environments. Systems with this modeling aim to improve services provided by professionals during treatment of patients located in their houses. We used concepts of pervasive computing to provide access to information anytime and wherever the user is, once a homecare environment has a high level of dynamicity. The knowledge representation of the environment is done through ontologies due to the possibility of reuse of information stored, as well as the interoperability of information among different computational devices.