Open IoT Architecture for Continuous Patient Monitoring in Emergency Wards
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IT—Instituto de Telecomunicações, Rua Roberto Frias, s/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
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FEUP—Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Roberto Frias, s/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
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ISEC—Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra—Coimbra Institute of Engineering, Rua Pedro Nunes, 3030-199 Coimbra, Portugal
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CISTER—Research Centre in Real-Time and Embedded Computing Systems, Rua Alfredo Allen 535, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal
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Electronics 2019, 8(10), 1074; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8101074
Received: 9 August 2019 / Revised: 9 September 2019 / Accepted: 19 September 2019 / Published: 23 September 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internet of Things (IoT)-Based Wireless Health: Enabling Technologies and Applications)
Due to multiple reasons, emergency wards can become overloaded with patients, some of which can be in critical health conditions. To improve the emergency service and avoid deaths and serious adverse events that could be potentially prevented, it is mandatory to do a continuous monitoring of patients physiological parameters. This is a good fit for Internet of Things (IoT) technology, but the scenario imposes hard constraints on autonomy, connectivity, interoperability, and delay. In this paper, we propose a full Internet-based architecture using open protocols from the wearable sensors up to the monitoring system. Particularly, we use low-cost and low-power WiFi-enabled wearable physiological sensors that connect directly to the Internet infrastructure and run open communication protocols, namely, oneM2M. At the upper end, our architecture relies on openEHR for data semantics, storage, and monitoring. Overall, we show the feasibility of our open IoT architecture exhibiting 20–50 ms end-to-end latency and 30–50 h sensor autonomy at a fraction of the cost of current non-interoperable vertical solutions.
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Keywords:
e-health; Internet of Things (IoT); Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications; system performance; Wi-Fi
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Pereira, C.; Mesquita, J.; Guimarães, D.; Santos, F.; Almeida, L.; Aguiar, A. Open IoT Architecture for Continuous Patient Monitoring in Emergency Wards. Electronics 2019, 8, 1074. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8101074
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Pereira C, Mesquita J, Guimarães D, Santos F, Almeida L, Aguiar A. Open IoT Architecture for Continuous Patient Monitoring in Emergency Wards. Electronics. 2019; 8(10):1074. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8101074
Chicago/Turabian StylePereira, Carlos; Mesquita, João; Guimarães, Diana; Santos, Frederico; Almeida, Luis; Aguiar, Ana. 2019. "Open IoT Architecture for Continuous Patient Monitoring in Emergency Wards" Electronics 8, no. 10: 1074. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8101074
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