TY - GEN
T1 - Building an IoT-aware healthcare monitoring system
AU - Jimenez, Freddy
AU - Torres, Romina
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2016/2/23
Y1 - 2016/2/23
N2 - Nowadays, ageing related diseases represent one of the most relevant challenges for developed countries. The use of healthcare remote technology may allow reducing most of the management of the chronic diseases meanwhile it may also contribute to the improvement of elderly people's quality of life. Unfortunately, despite the advent of Internet of things and the even decreasing price of sensors, current proposals are not extensible during runtime meaning that they need to be maintained offline by engineers. Therefore, in this paper we discuss how to build an ad-hoc extensible (during runtime) healthcare monitoring system by using low cost wireless sensors and already existent Internet of things technology as communication platform. Moreover, we present a prototype of a basic healthcare remote monitoring system, which alerts, in real time, patients' relatives or medical doctors that an elderly people is experienced a problem that could need medical attention or hospitalization.
AB - Nowadays, ageing related diseases represent one of the most relevant challenges for developed countries. The use of healthcare remote technology may allow reducing most of the management of the chronic diseases meanwhile it may also contribute to the improvement of elderly people's quality of life. Unfortunately, despite the advent of Internet of things and the even decreasing price of sensors, current proposals are not extensible during runtime meaning that they need to be maintained offline by engineers. Therefore, in this paper we discuss how to build an ad-hoc extensible (during runtime) healthcare monitoring system by using low cost wireless sensors and already existent Internet of things technology as communication platform. Moreover, we present a prototype of a basic healthcare remote monitoring system, which alerts, in real time, patients' relatives or medical doctors that an elderly people is experienced a problem that could need medical attention or hospitalization.
KW - healthcare
KW - internet-of-things
KW - wireless sensor network
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84963751584&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/SCCC.2015.7416592
DO - 10.1109/SCCC.2015.7416592
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84963751584
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, SCCC
BT - Proceedings - 2015 34th International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, SCCC 2015
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 34th International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, SCCC 2015
Y2 - 9 November 2015 through 13 November 2015
ER -