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Effective ways to use Internet of Things in the field of medical and smart health care

  • COMSATS University Islamabad
Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Abstract

The recent advancements in technology and the availability of the Internet make it possible to connect various devices that can communicate with each other and share data. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a new concept that allows users to connect various sensors and smart devices to collect real-time data from the environment. However, it has been observed that a comprehensive platform is still missing in the e-Health and m-Health architectures to use smartphone sensors to sense and transmit important data related to a patient's health. In this paper, our contribution is twofold. Firstly, we critically evaluate the existing literature, which discusses the effective ways to deploy IoT in the field of medical and smart health care. Secondly, we propose a new semantic model for patients' e-Health. The proposed model named as 'k-Healthcare' makes use of 4 layers; the sensor layer, the network layer, the Internet layer and the services layer. All layers cooperate with each other effectively and efficiently to provide a platform for accessing patients' health data using smart phones.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 372-379

Publication milestones

  • Published - 23/05/2016

Publication status

Published - 23/05/2016

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., United States

ISBN (Print)

9781467387521

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/624271
  • Scopus: 84974578142

Host publication title

2016 International Conference on Intelligent Systems Engineering (ICISE)

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