The ever-growing aging of the population has emphasized the importance of in-home AAL (Ambient Assisted Living) services for monitoring and improving its well-being and health, especially in the context of care facilities (retirement villages, clinics, senior neighborhood, etc). The paper proposes a novel simulation-driven platform named E-ALPHA (Edge-based Assisted Living Platform for Home cAre) which supports both Edge and Cloud Computing paradigm to develop innovative AAL services in scenarios of different scales. E-ALPHA flexibly combines Edge, Cloud or Edge/Cloud deployments, supports different communication protocols, and fosters the interoperability with other IoT platforms. Moreover, the simulation-based design helps in preliminary assessing (i) the expected performance of the service to be deployed according to the infrastructural characteristics of each specific small, medium and large scenario; and (ii) the most appropriate applications/platform configuration for a real deployment (kind and number of involved devices, Edge- or Cloud-based deployment, required connectivity type, etc). In this direction, two different use cases modeled according to realistic input (coming from past experience involving real testbed) are shown in order to demonstrate the potentials of the proposed simulation-driven AAL platform.

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基于边缘的 AAL 系统的仿真驱动平台

人口日益老龄化凸显了家庭 AAL（环境辅助生活）服务对于监测和改善其福祉和健康的重要性，尤其是在护理设施（退休村、诊所、老年社区、等等）。本文提出了一种名为 E-ALPHA（基于边缘的家庭护理辅助生活平台）的新型仿真驱动平台，该平台支持边缘和云计算范式，以在不同规模的场景中开发创新的 AAL 服务。E-ALPHA 灵活组合 Edge、Cloud 或 Edge/Cloud 部署，支持不同的通信协议，并促进与其他物联网平台的互操作性。而且，基于模拟的设计有助于初步评估 (i) 根据每个特定的小型、中型和大型场景的基础设施特征，将部署的服务的预期性能；(ii) 最适合实际部署的应用程序/平台配置（涉及设备的种类和数量、基于边缘或云的部署、所需的连接类型等）。在这个方向上，显示了根据实际输入（来自涉及真实测试台的过去经验）建模的两个不同用例，以展示所提议的模拟驱动 AAL 平台的潜力。所需的连接类型等）。在这个方向上，显示了根据实际输入（来自涉及真实测试台的过去经验）建模的两个不同用例，以展示所提议的模拟驱动 AAL 平台的潜力。所需的连接类型等）。在这个方向上，显示了根据实际输入（来自涉及真实测试台的过去经验）建模的两个不同用例，以展示所提议的模拟驱动 AAL 平台的潜力。