Title: A proposal for a healthcare environment with a real-time approach

Authors: Eliza H.A. Gomes; Mario A.R. Dantas; Patricia D.M. Plentz

Addresses: Department of Informatics and Statistics (INE), Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil ' Department of Computer Science (DCC), Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil ' Department of Informatics and Statistics (INE), Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

Abstract: The increased use of IoT has contributed to the popularisation of environments that monitor the daily activities and health of the elderly, children or people with disabilities. The requirements of these environments, such as low latency and rapid response, corroborate the usefulness of associating Fog Computing with healthcare environments since one of the advantages of Fog Computing is to provide low latency. Because of this, we propose the use of a hardware and software infrastructure capable of storing, processing and presenting monitoring data in real-time, based on Fog Computing paradigm. Additionally, we propose the structuring of sensors for the implementation of a simulated healthcare environment, as well as the processing logic for the presentation of results referring to the health of the user.

Keywords: IIoT platform; time constraint; fog computing; healthcare application.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGUC.2020.107623

International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, 2020 Vol.11 No.3, pp.398 - 408

Received: 18 Apr 2019
Accepted: 24 Jun 2019
Published online: 02 Jun 2020 *

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