在ISO/IEEE 11073设备通信标准系列的背景下，本标准确立了独立生活活动中心和管理者（如手机、个人电脑、个人健康设备和机顶盒）之间以即插即用互操作方式进行通信的规范性定义。它利用了现有标准的适当部分，包括ISO/IEEE 11073术语和信息模型。它规定了远程医疗环境中特定术语代码、格式和行为的使用，限制了基础框架中的模糊性，有利于互操作性。本标准定义了独立用户通信功能的共同核心 生活活动中心。在这种情况下，独立的生活活动中心被定义为与简单情况监视器（二进制传感器）通信的设备，将从简单环境监视器接收的信息标准化，并将该标准化信息提供给一个或多个管理者。 这 例如，可以检查信息，以确定一个人的活动/行为何时显著偏离了正常情况，从而可以通知相关方。独立的生活活动中心将对以下简单情况监测器（二进制传感器）的信息进行标准化，以便初步发布拟议标准:坠落传感器、运动传感器、门传感器、床/椅占用传感器、光开关传感器、烟雾传感器、（环境）温度阈值传感器、个人应急响应系统（PERS）和遗尿传感器（尿床）。

Within the context of the ISO/IEEE 11073 family of standards for device communication, this standard establishes a normative definition of the communication between independent living activity hubs and managers (e.g., cell phones, personal computers, personal health appliances, and set top boxes) in a manner that enables plug-and-play interoperability. It leverages appropriate portions of existing standards, including ISO/IEEE 11073 terminology and information models. It specifies the use of specific term codes, formats, and behaviors in telehealth environments restricting ambiguity in base frameworks in favor of interoperability. This standard defines a common core of communication functionality for independent living activity hubs. In this context, independent living activity hubs are defined as devices that communicate with simple situation monitors (binary sensors), normalize information received from the simple environmental monitors, and provide this normalized information to one or more managers. This information can be examined, for example, to determine when a person's activities/behaviors have deviated significantly from what is normal for them such that relevant parties can be notified. Independent living activity hubs will normalize information from the following simple situation monitors (binary sensors) for the initial release of the proposed standard: fall sensor, motion sensor, door sensor, bed/chair occupancy sensor, light switch sensor, smoke sensor, (ambient) temperature threshold sensor, personal emergency response system (PERS), and enuresis sensor (bed-wetting).