We have tested and conducted a real-life experiment with UbiCare in the period of July–October 2014. The subjects (residents) were a couple in their seventies. They were not researchers and their involvement in our research has been voluntary. UbiCare has been deployed in their summer-house. The researchers’ team monitored the system’s operation online through the web interface. Samples of the online reports have been validated via telephone communication with the subjects.
Medication intake applications focus on monitoring the intake of the patient’s drugs. The iCabiNET solution presented in [19] monitors the intake of prescription and over-the-counter drugs. It employs a smart medicine manager to notify patients via SMS or audio alarms about their medication’s dosages and times. In [10], a healthcare solution for medication noncompliance and ADL monitoring is proposed using an intelligent package sealed by controlled delimitation material with RFID tags; the latter can be detected by an RFID sensor at the moment of ingestion, allowing caregivers to remotely monitor whether or not a patient is adhering to the instructions. Medical status monitoring applications collect clinical data such as heart rate, pulse, glucose monitoring, and elaborate a current-state diagnosis of the patient. In [20], AlarmNet is proposed, an assisted living and residential monitoring network for pervasive adaptive healthcare in assisted living communities with residents or patients with diverse needs. AlarmNet integrates environmental, physiological and activity sensors in a scalable heterogeneous architecture. It monitors a series of variables, stores the data and processes the information to detect any abnormalities.