An Architecture for Smart Health Monitoring System Based on Fog Computing

Abstract

In many countries, especially in under developed and developing countries proper health care service is a major concern. The health centers are far and even the medical personnel are deficient when compared to the requirement of the people. For this reason, health services for people who are unhealthy and need health monitoring on regular basis is like impossible. This makes the health monitoring of healthy people left far more behind. In order for citizens not to be deprived of the primary care it is always desirable to implement some system to solve this issue. The application of Internet of Things (IoT) is wide and has been implemented in various areas like security, intelligent transport system, smart cities, smart factories and health. This paper focuses on the application of IoT in health care system and proposes a novel architecture of making use of an IoT concept under fog computing. The proposed architecture can be used to acknowledge the underlying problem of deficient clinic-centric health system and change it to smart patient-centric health system.

A Fog Computing-Based Architecture for Medical Records Management

“…With the review, it was identified that the management of medical data stored in the Fog Layer is still an open question [15]. Security and privacy are important features for such an approach, and they are widely cited in [8,9,12,[15][16][17][18]. Storage capacity is also another challenge, as Fog has limited space when compared to the Cloud [19].…”

“…In this context, the Cloud Computing paradigm has been used to store and process this information. However, Cloudbased solutions can create delays in health applications, which can result in the failure of medical systems and originate misdiagnosis [8,9]. Thus, Fog Computing (Fog) has emerged as an alternative to using Cloud, bringing computing and storage capabilities closer to applications and data sources and consequently preventing delays [10][11][12][13].…”

“…Privacy is also an important feature because medical records are intimate information about the patient's life [8,[16][17][18]. Therefore, the control of access to such data needs to be guaranteed, avoiding the unauthorized use of such information by malicious people.…”

Improved Health Care System in Fog Computing and WSN

“…There are many servers present in this system to transfer the data from various places that are collected from the patients. By maintaining the data storage with very low cost, moveable size, less power consumption the device nodes have grownup hugely [8]…”

An Edge Computing-Based Complex Event Processing Technique for Sensor-Based Systems

“…In [141] Figure 3.6: A simplified view of a system architecture used in [141] The authors have leveraged a hierarchal fog layer approach in which the health center is considered as a primary fog server and the hospital is considered as a secondary fog server as shown in Figure 3 Another work reported in [144] describes a pulse monitoring system which also used the Android application as an edge gateway and sends data to a web portal for analysis and visualization. A similar approach is described in [145] which uses an Android device as a gateway agent.…”