116 Copyright © 2011, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. Chapter 8 Healthcare Oriented Smart House for Elderly and/ or Disabled People: A Case Study Nicholas S. Samaras TEI of Larissa, Greece Costas Chaikalis TEI of Larissa, Greece Giorgios Siafakas TEI of Larissa, Greece INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW Smart houses support services which ease and secure people’s lives. The applications that a smart house can support are realised by wireless sensors and are divided into the following five categories (Stefanov, Bien, Bang, 2004), (Dewsbury, Taylor, Edge, 2002): • Energy management: Applications which can control the heating and lighting system ABSTRACT Smart houses represent a modern technology which can secure and facilitate our life. The objective of this chapter is to adapt medical sensors to home automated systems, which collect medical data such as blood pressure, heart rate and electrical heart activity for elderly and/or disabled persons. Firstly, the collected data is transferred to a home server and to an external manager for further analysis. Subsequently, data is stored at a database where monitoring is available only for authorized users via a simple web interface. The IEEE 802.15.4 wireless standard has been chosen as the preferred solution for communication in the smart house. Finally, two implementation scenarios of the smart house for an elderly and/or disabled person are simulated using the Custodian software tool. This case study shows that simulating the automation system of a smart house before the implementation is advantageous. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-805-0.ch008