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Security architecture for mobile E-health applications in medication control
The use of Radio Frequency Identification technology (RFID) in medical context enables not only drug identification,
but also a rapid and precise identification of patients, physicians, nurses or any other health caregiver. Combining RFID tag identification with structured and secured Internet
of Things (IoT) solutions enable ubiquitous and easy access to medical related records, while providing control and security to all interactions.
This paper defines a basic security architecture, easily deployable on mobile platforms, which would allow to establish and manage a medication prescription service in mobility context making use of electronic Personal Health Records. This security architecture is aimed to be used with a mobile e-health application (m-health) through a simple and intuitive interface, supported by RFID technology. This architecture, able to support secured and authenticated interactions, will enable an easy deployment of m-health applications. The special case of drug administration and ubiquitous medication control system, along with the corresponding Internet of Things context, is used as a case study.
Both security architecture and its protocols, along with a general Ambient Assisted Living secure service for medication control, is then analyzed in the context of the Internet of Things.FEDER Funds through the Programa Operacional Fatores de Competitividade - COMPETE and by National Funds through the FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) within project FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-022674
System for monitoring and supporting the treatment of sleep apnea using IoT and big data
[EN] Sleep apnea has become in the sleep disorder that causes greater concern in recent years due to its morbidity and mortality, higher medical care costs and poor people quality of life. Some proposals have addressed sleep apnea disease in elderly people, but they have still some technical limitations. For these reasons, this paper presents an innovative system based on fog and cloud computing technologies which in combination with IoT and big data platforms offers new opportunities to build novel and innovative services for supporting the sleep apnea and to overcome the current limitations. Particularly, the system is built on several low-power wireless networks with heterogeneous smart devices (i.e, sensors and actuators). In the fog, an edge node (Smart IoT Gateway) provides IoT connection and interoperability and pre-processing IoT data to detect events in real-time that might endanger the elderly's health and to act accordingly. In the cloud, a Generic Enabler Context Broker manages, stores and injects data into the big data analyzer for further processing and analyzing. The system's performance and subjective applicability are evaluated using over 30 GB size datasets and a questionnaire fulfilled by medicals specialist, respectively. Results show that the system data analytics improve the health professionals' decision making to monitor and guide sleep apnea treatment, as well as improving elderly people's quality of life. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.This research was supported by the Ecuadorian Government through the Secretary of Higher Education, Science, Technology, and Innovation (SENESCYT) and has received funding from the European Union's "Horizon 2020'' research and innovation program as part of the ACTIVAGE project under Grant 732679 and the Interoperability of Heterogeneous IoT Platforms project (INTER-IoT) under Grant 687283.Yacchirema-Vargas, DC.; Sarabia-Jácome, DF.; Palau Salvador, CE.; Esteve Domingo, M. (2018). System for monitoring and supporting the treatment of sleep apnea using IoT and big data. Pervasive and Mobile Computing. 50:25-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmcj.2018.07.007S25405
Arquitectura de segurança para a prestação de serviços de saúde em mobilidade
Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia de ComunicaçõesO crescente custo associado ao tratamento de pacientes leva à sua relocação para o próprio
domicílio. Esta relocação conduz à necessidade de uso de ferramentas automatizadas permitindo
a diminuição dos erros que a mesma acarreta.
O uso de Radio Frequency Identi cation (RFID) permite não só a identi cação dos medicamentos
como também de pacientes, médicos, enfermeiros e qualquer outro tipo de prestador
de cuidados de saúde. A combinação do uso de identi cação de etiquetas RFID com soluções
Internet of Things (IoT) bem estruturadas e seguras permite um acesso fácil e ubíquo a registos
médicos, oferecendo em simultâneo controlo e segurança a todas as interacções.
Nesta dissertação é de nida uma arquitectura de segurança, facilmente implementável
em plataformas móveis, que permite o estabelecimento e gestão de um serviço de prescrições
médicas, num contexto de mobilidade usando Registo Pessoal de Saúde (PHR) electrónico.
Esta arquitectura de segurança tem como objectivo o uso com uma aplicação móvel de saúde
(M-Health) através de um interface simples e intuitivo, suportado pela tecnologia RFID. Esta
arquitectura, capaz de suportar interacções seguras e autenticadas, vai permitir uma fácil implementa
ção de aplicações M-Health. É apresentado o caso especial de administração de medicamentos
e o sistema controlo de medicação ubíqua, de acordo com o contexto da IoT.
A arquitectura de segurança e os seus protocolos, juntamente com o serviço seguro
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) para controlo de medicação, são analisados no contexto da
IoT.
De forma a veri car a exequibilidade dos protocolos e da arquitectura de segurança, foram
implementadas aplicações protótipos ( xas e móveis) que permitem veri car o funcionamento
total do sistema. Foram ainda efectuados alguns testes de segurança e desempenho para veri car
a usabilidade de todo o sistema.The increasing healthcare costs leads to their relocation to their own homes. This leads
to the need of automated tools allowing the decrease errors that this entails.
The use of Radio Frequency Identi cation (RFID) technology allows not only drug identi-
cation, but also identi cation of patient, physicians, nurses or any other healthcare giver. The
combination of RFID tag identi cation with structured and secured Internet of Things (IoT)
solutions allows an ubiquitous and easy access to medical records, while providing control and
security to all interactions.
In this thesis is de ned a security architecture, easily deployable on mobile platforms,
which would allow to establish and manage a medication prescription service in mobility context,
making use of electronic Personal Health Record (PHR). This security architecture is
aimed to be used with a mobile e-health application (M-Health) through a simple and intuitive
interface, supported by RFID technology. This architecture, able to support secured
and authenticated interactions, will enable an easy deployment of m-health applications. The
special case of drug administration and ubiquitous medication control system, along with the
corresponding IoT context, is presented.
The secuirity architecture and its protocols, along with a general Ambient Assisted Living
(AAL) secure service for medication control, is then analyzed int the context of IoT.
To verify the architecture and protocols implementability, they were deployed prototype
applications (Fixed and mobile) allowing the veri cation of the whole system operating. They
were also made some security and performance tests allowing system usability veri cation
Medical data processing and analysis for remote health and activities monitoring
Recent developments in sensor technology, wearable computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and wireless communication have given rise to research in ubiquitous healthcare and remote monitoring of human\u2019s health and activities. Health monitoring systems involve processing and analysis of data retrieved from smartphones, smart watches, smart bracelets, as well as various sensors and wearable devices. Such systems enable continuous monitoring of patients psychological and health conditions by sensing and transmitting measurements such as heart rate, electrocardiogram, body temperature, respiratory rate, chest sounds, or blood pressure. Pervasive healthcare, as a relevant application domain in this context, aims at revolutionizing the delivery of medical services through a medical assistive environment and facilitates the independent living of patients. In this chapter, we discuss (1) data collection, fusion, ownership and privacy issues; (2) models, technologies and solutions for medical data processing and analysis; (3) big medical data analytics for remote health monitoring; (4) research challenges and opportunities in medical data analytics; (5) examples of case studies and practical solutions
Middleware Technologies for Cloud of Things - a survey
The next wave of communication and applications rely on the new services
provided by Internet of Things which is becoming an important aspect in human
and machines future. The IoT services are a key solution for providing smart
environments in homes, buildings and cities. In the era of a massive number of
connected things and objects with a high grow rate, several challenges have
been raised such as management, aggregation and storage for big produced data.
In order to tackle some of these issues, cloud computing emerged to IoT as
Cloud of Things (CoT) which provides virtually unlimited cloud services to
enhance the large scale IoT platforms. There are several factors to be
considered in design and implementation of a CoT platform. One of the most
important and challenging problems is the heterogeneity of different objects.
This problem can be addressed by deploying suitable "Middleware". Middleware
sits between things and applications that make a reliable platform for
communication among things with different interfaces, operating systems, and
architectures. The main aim of this paper is to study the middleware
technologies for CoT. Toward this end, we first present the main features and
characteristics of middlewares. Next we study different architecture styles and
service domains. Then we presents several middlewares that are suitable for CoT
based platforms and lastly a list of current challenges and issues in design of
CoT based middlewares is discussed.Comment: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352864817301268,
Digital Communications and Networks, Elsevier (2017
Middleware Technologies for Cloud of Things - a survey
The next wave of communication and applications rely on the new services
provided by Internet of Things which is becoming an important aspect in human
and machines future. The IoT services are a key solution for providing smart
environments in homes, buildings and cities. In the era of a massive number of
connected things and objects with a high grow rate, several challenges have
been raised such as management, aggregation and storage for big produced data.
In order to tackle some of these issues, cloud computing emerged to IoT as
Cloud of Things (CoT) which provides virtually unlimited cloud services to
enhance the large scale IoT platforms. There are several factors to be
considered in design and implementation of a CoT platform. One of the most
important and challenging problems is the heterogeneity of different objects.
This problem can be addressed by deploying suitable "Middleware". Middleware
sits between things and applications that make a reliable platform for
communication among things with different interfaces, operating systems, and
architectures. The main aim of this paper is to study the middleware
technologies for CoT. Toward this end, we first present the main features and
characteristics of middlewares. Next we study different architecture styles and
service domains. Then we presents several middlewares that are suitable for CoT
based platforms and lastly a list of current challenges and issues in design of
CoT based middlewares is discussed.Comment: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352864817301268,
Digital Communications and Networks, Elsevier (2017
An Advanced Conceptual Diagnostic Healthcare Framework for Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disorders
The data mining along with emerging computing techniques have astonishingly
influenced the healthcare industry. Researchers have used different Data Mining
and Internet of Things (IoT) for enrooting a programmed solution for diabetes
and heart patients. However, still, more advanced and united solution is needed
that can offer a therapeutic opinion to individual diabetic and cardio
patients. Therefore, here, a smart data mining and IoT (SMDIoT) based advanced
healthcare system for proficient diabetes and cardiovascular diseases have been
proposed. The hybridization of data mining and IoT with other emerging
computing techniques is supposed to give an effective and economical solution
to diabetes and cardio patients. SMDIoT hybridized the ideas of data mining,
Internet of Things, chatbots, contextual entity search (CES), bio-sensors,
semantic analysis and granular computing (GC). The bio-sensors of the proposed
system assist in getting the current and precise status of the concerned
patients so that in case of an emergency, the needful medical assistance can be
provided. The novelty lies in the hybrid framework and the adequate support of
chatbots, granular computing, context entity search and semantic analysis. The
practical implementation of this system is very challenging and costly.
However, it appears to be more operative and economical solution for diabetes
and cardio patients.Comment: 11 PAGE
Business Case and Technology Analysis for 5G Low Latency Applications
A large number of new consumer and industrial applications are likely to
change the classic operator's business models and provide a wide range of new
markets to enter. This article analyses the most relevant 5G use cases that
require ultra-low latency, from both technical and business perspectives. Low
latency services pose challenging requirements to the network, and to fulfill
them operators need to invest in costly changes in their network. In this
sense, it is not clear whether such investments are going to be amortized with
these new business models. In light of this, specific applications and
requirements are described and the potential market benefits for operators are
analysed. Conclusions show that operators have clear opportunities to add value
and position themselves strongly with the increasing number of services to be
provided by 5G.Comment: 18 pages, 5 figure
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