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From the last few years, Wireless body area networks (WBANs) have attracted a lot of attention from both academia and industry due to an increase in real-time data capturing and processing for patient monitoring. This has become possible due to the technological advancements in which high computing and communication facilities are available for most of the modern handheld devices. In this environment,...
Physical therapy has a lot of importance for the well being and a better quality of living for an elderly patient. One integral constituent of any patient regime is the home-based exercise that a patient works on in a much comfortable environment. Although the benefits are well known, there is a big lag between the exercises prescribed by the therapists and the ones actually done by the patient. There...
The Internet of Things (IoT) vision requires increasingly more sensor nodes interconnected and a network solution that may accommodate these requirements accordingly. In wireless sensor networks, there are energy-limited devices; therefore techniques to save energy have become a significant research trend. Other issues such as latency, range coverage, and bandwidth are important aspects in IoT. It...
The current tendency to embed computational resources on quotidian objects transforms them into smart objects. This is the vision of Internet of things, where many different devices collect and process information from different sources to both control physical processes and interact with human users. Initially wireless sensor networks and Internet of things concepts were used with the same meaning...
This paper surveys the emerging paradigm of cloud mobile media. We start with two alternative perspectives for cloud mobile media networks: an end-to-end view and a layered view. Summaries of existing research in this area are organized according to the layered service framework: i) cloud resource management and control in infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), ii) cloud-based media services in platform-as-a-service...
Health monitoring of patients is a common task in healthcare houses from nursing homes to hospitals. Medical staff moves close to patients and collects their monitoring body parameters. To help the overall state control of monitored patients, it could be performed in autonomous, real-time, and remotely way. The application of healthcare wireless sensor networks to these scenarios could perform this...
In this paper, it is presented the design of a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) gateway for wireless sensor networks (WSNs), capable of discovering all the services of a WSN, and creating a unique UPnP device to advertise them to interested UPnP control points. Besides, an application protocol for WSN is designed to exchange UPnP-related data between the WSN and the gateway. Experiments in an indoor...
6LoWPAN opens a great opportunity for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to be operated from the Internet. However, 6LoWPAN requires a gateway in order to make the use of IPv6 feasible inside the WSN. In this paper, a gateway is designed and constructed to interconnect 6LoWPAN wireless sensor networks with IPv6 clients, enabling them to receive sensor nodes readings or send commands to the 6LoWPAN WSN...
Today, many kinds of companies with different activities are set around the world. The quantity of information involved therefore has exploded in the sites of information. In the network architecture, information is commonly shipped on mobile sites with potential storage and processing. Several validation protocols were proposed for validating the transactions in the mobile environments. On the one...
IPv6 over Low-power Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs) enables IPv6 support for wireless sensor networks (WSNs), making them connectable through the Internet. However, new gateway devices are needed in order to make end-to-end connectivity between sensor nodes and Internet devices possible. In this paper, a ready-to-use WSN gateway is constructed to connect WSNs and IPv6 hosts, allowing interaction...
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