Toward Cooperation of Personal Health Devices and Smart Appliances in Japan Smart Homes

Smart home technologies are assisting elderly people to live independently and actively. Recently, the smart home healthcare market advances all over the world due to the increasing demand for connected health monitoring equipment. As a consequence, the interoperability problems of personal health standards/ecosystem and smart home protocols/ standards are rising. In the scope of this paper, a concept that supports the cooperation of the PCHA ecosystem and the ECHONET Lite protocol via a Data Distribution Platform is proposed and implemented.