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AIoTES: Setting the principles for semantic interoperable and modern IoT-enabled reference architecture for Active and Healthy Ageing ecosystems

Publicated to:Computer Communications. 177 96-111 - 2021-09-01 177(), DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2021.06.010

Authors: Valero, Clara I; Gil, Alejandro M Medrano; Gonzalez-Usach, Regel; Julian, Matilde; Fico, Giuseppe; Arredondo, Maria Teresa; Stavropoulos, Thanos G; Strantsalis, Dimitrios; Voulgaridis, Antonis; Roca, Felipe; Jara, Antonio J; Serrano, Martin; Zappa, Achille; Khan, Yasar; Guillen, Sergio; Sala, Pilar; Belsa, Andreu; Votis, Konstantinos; Palau, Carlos E

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Ctr Res & Technol Hellas, Inst Informat Technol - Author
HOP Ubiquitous - Author
MYSPHERA - Author
Natl Univ Ireland Galway, Insight SFI Res Ctr Data Analyt, Data Sci Inst, IDA Business Pk - Author
Univ Politecn Madrid - Author
Univ Politecn Valencia, Dept Commun - Author
Univ Politecn Valencia, ITACA Inst - Author
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Abstract

The average life expectancy of the world's population is increasing and the healthcare systems sooner than later will be compromised by its reduced capacity and its highly economic cost; in addition, the age distribution of the population is leading towards the older spectrum. This trend will lead to immeasurable and unexpected economic problems and social changes. In order to face up this challenge and complex economic and social problem, it is necessary to rely on the appropriate digital tools and technological infrastructures for ensuring that the elderly are properly cared in their everyday living environments and they can live independently for longer. This article presents ACTIVAGE IoT Ecosystem Suite (AIoTES), a concrete reference architecture and its implementation process that addresses these issues and that was designed within the first European Large Scale Pilot, ACTIVAGE, a H2020 funded project by the European Commission with the objective of creating sustainable ecosystems for Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA) based on Internet of Things and big data technologies. AIoTES offers platform level semantic interoperability, with security and privacy, as well as Big Data and Ecosystem tools. AIoTES enables and promotes the creation, exchange and adoption of crossplatform services and applications for AHA. The number of existing AHA services and solutions are quite large, especially when state-of-the-art technology is introduced, however a concrete architecture such as AIoTES gains more importance and relevance by providing a vision for establishing a complete ecosystem, that looks for supporting a larger variety of AHA services, rather than claiming to be a unique solution for all the AHA domain problems. AIoTES has been successfully validated by testing all of its components, individually, integrated, and in real-world environments with 4345 direct users. Each validation is contextualized in 11 Deployment Sites (DS) with 13 Validation Scenarios covering the heterogeneity of the AHA-IoT needs. These results also show a clear path for improvement, as well as the importance for standardization efforts in the ever-evolving AHA-IoT domain.

Keywords
Active and healthy ageingActive and healthy agingAnalyticsArchitectureAverage life expectancyBig dataConcretesDigital devicesEconomic problemsEcosystemEcosystemsHealthcare systemsInternetInternet of thingsInteroperabilityMarketplacePlatform and servicePlatforms and servicesReference architectureSemantic interoperabilitySemanticsThingsWorld population

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Computer Communications due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2021, it was in position 61/276, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Engineering, Electrical & Electronic.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from the Field Citation Ratio (FCR) of the Dimensions source, it yields a value of: 3.56, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: Dimensions May 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-05-20, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 7
  • Scopus: 12
  • OpenCitations: 9
Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-05-20:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 135.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 134 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 0.5.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).
Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Greece; United Kingdom.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Valero López, Clara Isabel) and Last Author (Palau Salvador, Carlos Enrique).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Valero López, Clara Isabel.