Ambient Assisted Living

"One of the most informative books, that includes almost all recent advances and technologies as well as aspects of AAL, in smart environments of today. The book, drives the readers’ minds for more scientific inspirations in the era of Peta, within AAL context."
—Dr. Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis

"the book seeks to show AAL technologies from its inception to implementation. It can help to disseminate them. The book will be an important way to communicate important AAL concepts. This book is an important contribution in the field of AAL. The contents and structure are adequate for its publication."
—Miguel Lopez-Coronado, Department of Signal Theory and Communications

"The main strengths of the book are that it covers the latest development of AAL and the comprehensive review on AAL including the concept, application, software, system, services, and many others. The text is easy for the readers to follow. It is valuable material for students, developers and researchers that are interested in working on AAL to gain a good overview and insights, thereby to quickly identify the opportunities where they can make novel contributions."
—Qi Zhang, Department of Engineering, Aarhus University

"One of the most informative books, that includes almost all recent advances and technologies as well as aspects of AAL, in smart environments of today. The book, drives the readers’ minds for more scientific inspirations in the era of Peta, within AAL context."
—Dr. Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis

"the book seeks to show AAL technologies from its inception to implementation. It can help to disseminate them. The book will be an important way to communicate important AAL concepts. This book is an important contribution in the field of AAL. The contents and structure are adequate for its publication."
—Miguel Lopez-Coronado, Department of Signal Theory and Communications

"The main strengths of the book are that it covers the latest development of AAL and the comprehensive review on AAL including the concept, application, software, system, services, and many others. The text is easy for the readers to follow. It is valuable material for students, developers and researchers that are interested in working on AAL to gain a good overview and insights, thereby to quickly identify the opportunities where they can make novel contributions."
—Qi Zhang, Department of Engineering, Aarhus University

Nuno M. Garcia holds a PhD in computer science engineering from the University of Beira Interior (UBI, Covilhã, Portugal) (2008). He is assistant professor at UBI and invited associate professor at the Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias (Lisbon, Portugal). He was founder and is coordinator of the Assisted Living Computing and Telecommunications Laboratory (ALLab), a research group within the Instituto de Telecomunicações at UBI. He was also co-founder and is coordinator of the BSAFE LAB – Law enforcement, Justice and Public Safety Research and Technology Transfer Laboratory, a multidisciplinary research laboratory in UBI. He is the coordinator of the Cisco Academy at UBI and head of EyeSeeLab in EyeSee Lda. (Lisbon, Portugal). He is also chair of the COST Action IC1303 AAPELE – Architectures, Algorithms and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments.

Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues is a professor in the Department of Informatics of the University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, and senior researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal. He received the habilitation in computer science and engineering from the University of Haute Alsace, France; a PhD in informatics engineering; an MSc from the University of Beira Interior; and a five-year BSc (licentiate) in informatics engineering from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. His main research interests include sensor networks, e-health, e-learning, vehicular delay-tolerant networks, and mobile and ubiquitous computing. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal on E-Health and Medical Communications , the editor-in-chief of the Recent Advances on Communications and Networking Technology , the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Multimedia Information Systems , and editorial board member of several journals.