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As the number of devices (things) connected to the Internet (Internet of things: IoT) is growing, achieving robust security and privacy (S&P) is becoming increasingly challenging. With the heavy use of medical things (MT), the S&P in the medical domain poses a serious issue that continues to grow. Due to the criticality and sensitivity of the data in the healthcare domain, ensuring...
The Ambient intelligence (AmI) paradigm refers to electronic environments which are sensitive and responsive to the presence of people. Queue systems are practically used in various institutions and commercial enterprises constituting a challenge for the intelligent environments in smart cities. The management of the customer flows guarantees elimination or reduction of the queues as well as the economic...
Cardiovascular Diseases (CVDs) are a major concern. They are responsible for 35% of deaths and for costs of billions of dollars worldwide. Prevention of CVDs has become a global priority. Comprehensive use of wearable devices operating in the context of Internet-of-Things (IoT) paradigm is the key to monitor, diagnose and treat CVDs. Most of the previous approaches propose wearables only for non-invasive...
Urine output is deemed very important by Physicians for diagnosis of many diseases like Acute Kidney Injury (AKI), Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT) etc. Until now, in hospitals, urine output is measured using a container having the measurement scale on it from which the nursing staff notes down the readings hourly. This is a very time consuming practice and may have adverse effect on the diagnosis...
Proposals and some implementations of Internet of Things (IoT) systems for healthcare are described. Implications of current European Union legislation, the new General Data Protection Regulation, for the security and reliability of healthcare IoT systems and for the privacy of users of these systems are presented. Analytics of healthcare IoT data for the requirements of evidence based healthcare...
Fog computing is considered as the most promising enhancement of the traditional cloud computing paradigm in order to handle potential issues introduced by the emerging Interned of Things (IoT) framework at the network edge. The heterogeneous nature, the extensive distribution and the hefty number of deployed IoT nodes will disrupt existing functional models, creating confusion. However, IoT will...
The abundance of activity trackers and biosignal sensors as well as the evolution of IoT and communication technologies have considerably advanced the concept of Quantified-Self. Nowadays there are several frameworks and applications that realize the concept, focusing though strictly on specific areas, from daily use to professional activities such as sport and healthcare. This work proposes a versatile,...
Ageing populations and the increase in chronic diseases all over the world demand efficient healthcare solutions for maintaining well-being of people. One strategy that has drawn significant research attention is a focus on remote health monitoring systems based on Internet of Things (IoT) technology. This concept can help decrease pressure on hospital systems and healthcare providers, reduce healthcare...
Objectives: Post hospitalization care of a patient treated for critical illness, for instance cardiac arrest has been regarded as imperative. Nevertheless, it has become inevitable to skip follow-ups by the patients themselves. Method: This paper aims at designing a system which continuously monitors the health of the patient despite the patient being busy with his routine. An application is developed...
Medicines are the primitive solution for the prevention and cure for most of the diseases. Many risky diseases can be cured and prevented with the use of proper medication. The main objective of our proposed system, is to ensure a user friendly design that the patients can use as a reminder alert to take their daily medications on time. A wearable device is designed which is used to monitor the heartrate...
Many devices and solutions for remote electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring have been proposed in the literature. These solutions typically have a large marginal cost per added sensor and are not seamlessly integrated with other smart home solutions. Here, we propose an ECG remote monitoring system that is dedicated to non-technical users in need of long-term health monitoring in residential environments...
With the support of the wearable devices, healthcare services started a new phase in serving patients need. The new technology adds more facilities and luxury to the healthcare services, Also changes patients' lifestyles from the traditional way of monitoring to the remote home monitoring. Such new approach faces many challenges related to security as sensitive data get transferred through different...
Internet of Things (IoT) is a computing process, where each physical object is equipped with sensors, microcontrollers and transceivers for empowering communication and is built with suitable protocol stacks which help them interacting with each other and communicating with the users. In IoT based healthcare, diverse distributed devices aggregate, analyse and communicate real time medical information...
Prediction of Chronic Disorders in early stage is very vital. IoT facilitated remote health monitoring system has enormous benefits over customary health monitoring system. It is imperative to accumulate correct raw data in an efficient way; but more significant is to explore and mine the raw data to abstract more valued information such as correlations amongst things and services to afford web of...
This paper presents a SWOT analysis for the emerging and futuristic field of non-medical body-implantable devices. This area will begin to materialize as one of the next big themes in future personal computing and offers huge rewards to society if implemented correctly. The technology boasts many strengths which are applicable to a variety markets including entertainment, social networking, personal...
This paper presents an open discussion about current achievements and remaining challenges in the general adoption of wearable monitoring devices among the general population. To understand the open issues we present some background of Internet of Things (IoT) systems for pervasive wellbeing monitoring, including a brief taxonomy of wearable monitoring devices and possible application domains. We...
The project “ALL4ALL” develops a social welfare and technology ecosystem aimed at improving social inclusion of vulnerable groups of the population, particularly the elderly and disabled. It is a project funded under the “POR FESR 2007/2013” program of Piedmont Region (Italy) involving small and large companies together with research organizations and academia. It builds a comprehensive framework...
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