2.5. Mobility
Patients that have chronic conditions and need 24/7 monitoring are, conventionally, monitored using
bulky, fixed equipment that may restrict their mobility or inefficiently perform monitoring over predetermined
periods. Ubiquitous computing promises users the increased freedom of mobility while accessing
data services in an ”‘anywhere, anytime”’ fashion. The increase in mobility intrinsically results in
changing a user’s contextual information such as location, and available resources around it. Using mobile
Web services offers a natural opportunity for mobility and enables caregivers at remote locations to ”‘keep
an eye”’ on patients with critical health signs, even while patients or caregivers are on the move.