Mobile Terminal Framework Software for Supporting Safety Navigation

Abstract

This Master’s Thesis was done as a continuation of the ideas originally outlined during the Ryhti project, performed in the Pehr Brahe Software Laboratory back in 2011. One of the aims of the Ryhti project was to create ubiquitous and intelligent home environments for elderly people, while this Thesis was aimed at creating a special software framework for enabling mobile well-being services on Android terminals, such as smartphones and wearables. Keeping that task in mind, the author introduces the concepts of mobile health- care and well-being services to the reader. The examples of real-life mobile health-care products and services are presented and reviewed. The author describes the benefits and challenges of applying mobile technologies to the health-care domain, especially in the scope of enabling access to health-care services in developing countries. A number of smartphone-based health-care equipment and applications are also presented to the reader. The results of in-field testing of such equipment are also discussed, together with reviewing the modularity of such solutions. The concepts of Safety Navigation system are presented to the reader, and the main functionality of the Mobile Terminal Framework Software (MTFS) is described. The most important use-cases of the Safety Navigation system are presented and a number of similar real-life products are reviewed, comparing their benefits and drawbacks. Some end-user’s privacy issues are also reviewed, helping the reader to understand the decisions and compromises that the author made within the MTFS framework regarding data security. The following chapters describe all technical details about implementing, testing and improving the components in the MTFS framework, including other mobile applications that could be developed with the MTFS framework.