Fog computing system for monitoring Mild Dementia and COPD patients - Romanian case study

Abstract

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is a key element in improving the senior's lifestyle and in increasing their independence along with their quality of life. AAL implementation through ICT is a trending research area, especially in the remote monitoring field. One of the biggest issues of the monitoring systems is how they fit into the healthcare system of another country than the country of origin. In the article we present the Romanian healthcare regulations and procedures requirements, for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Mild Dementia patients, and we also present how a monitoring system, like eWALL, fits these requirements. This system is based on a computationaldistributed approach (in the manner of fog computing) to process the sensed information from the patient home environment in order to reduce the communications overload and to keep the privacy on the patient life.

A Comprehensive Survey on Fog Computing: State-of-the-Art and Research Challenges

“…The scalability (C3) criterion is then not met. It should be noted that, in contrast to Fratu et al [64] who provide static monitoring of the patients, Patient Monitoring supports the dynamic monitoring of patients in outdoor activities (e.g., walking). So, the mobility criterion (C4) is met.…”

“…b) Healthcare with Focus on COPD Fratu et al [64] present an architecture for an application that offers support for people affected by COPD and mild dementia. The architecture they propose relies on the fog in order to reduce the latency requirement, which is critical in case of emergency.…”

Potentials, trends, and prospects in edge technologies: Fog, cloudlet, mobile edge, and micro data centers

“…The oxygen supply does not depend only on the patient's physical conditions, rather it encompasses various parameters, such as patient condition, air pollution, and air quality. Fratu et al employed fog computing to eWALL EU project to achieve real-time response for Mild Dementia (MD) and COPD patients [6]. eWALL offers a prefabricated system with various sensors to monitor various vital signs and habits of MD and COPD patients [6].…”

“…Fratu et al employed fog computing to eWALL EU project to achieve real-time response for Mild Dementia (MD) and COPD patients [6]. eWALL offers a prefabricated system with various sensors to monitor various vital signs and habits of MD and COPD patients [6].…”

“…The proliferation of mobile devices, which are predicted to be more than 50 Billion devices by the year 2020, will produce massive amounts of data [6]. Moreover, the ever increasing data rates from the Internet of Things (IoT) devices will impose further challenges on the cloud computing infrastructure.…”