376 Home intelligent care architecture to support health risk attendance I. Pau, M.A. Valero, E. Gago and J. Carracedo Department of Telematics Engineering and Architectures. Technical University of Madrid, Spain Abstract— The deployment of the Information Society demands global solutions for the citizens. These solutions should be able to adapt themselves to the necessities of the people improving so their quality of life in the near surround- ing. The utilization of communications and data processing technologies in the scope of homecare for people with special needs raises important advances that do directly benefit the patient in their own home: prediction or early detection of danger situations, customized follow-up and so on. In order to achieve this possibility, it is required to obtain patients status in their own home and to provide and effective transmission of their situation to external care services in case of necessity. The present article shows a system that allows communicating patients´ status to external homecare services (relatives, emer- gency services, health centers, etc.). The proposed system en- compasses an integral solution to process this information transmission, studying the existing problems at all telematic levels, from network level to the handled information models. The communications model used must support not only a communication between the home and the services for effective care but also an easily integrable system for the existing com- puterized services in the different care organizations. So, each connectivity scenario of these organizations needs to be studied in order to establish an open generalizable model. an informa- tion model is designed so that, having all the data needed to indicate the status of the patient, compatibility is targeted with the existing information models of each application of tele- medicine and telecare facilitating so the simplest achievable integration. Keywords—Information Model, Telehealth applications, Ontology I. INTRODUCTION The Information Society for all, especially for people with dependency, will be a reality as well as new services may be adapted to the needs of the citizens, improving so their quality of life in the near environment. Homecare services, supported by telematics, constitute a significant sample in the achievement of this objective. Systems must be able to act upon the particular needs of the users at a given time, allowing them effective communication with the care centers in charge of assisting each patient. II. DEFINITION OF THE PROBLEM AND OBJECTIVES Telematics supported homecare means a great technical and organizational challenge since its scope of application is quite critical and diverse. On one hand, handled data and situations, referred to patients´ health, are very confidential, variable, person dependent and, sometimes, subjected to interpretation by qualified people. On the other hand, the system must communicate with care providers, through public networks, a house prepared to acquire data. This fact leads to challenges when data are gathered inside a house such us: non intrusive data capture for the user, initial inter- pretation of the situation of the user inside the house (initial pre-diagnosis) and communication of that house with the care centers in order to report about any fact or to ask for some service. In any case criteria about quality of services, availability and interoperability of information among the different care and service centers need to be defined. The presented work is part of a research line that defines implements and validates a generic architecture to provide an integral care system for the user: from the home to the care services. Fig. 1 Generic Home i-Care Architecture