Towards a Semantic Medical Internet of Things
Ahmed Dridi, Salma Sassi, Sami Faïz · 2017
A gradual evolution of the Internet, allowing it to extend beyond the electronic world to the physical world by interconnecting various devices and sensors that can communicate with each other and share data. The field of healthcare monitoring Systems have experienced significant changes using this promising new technology, called Internet of Things (IoT). In this paper, we propose a new platform for health care, which we have called the 'Semantic Medical IoT platform'. This platform is designed primarily for the semantization of the Internet of things in the medical and healthcare field. It proposes solutions for the problems of the interoperability of medical devices, the integration of massive and heterogeneous data, and the personalized visualization of these data. The platform also provides various services, like: Multi-type functional communication service, the significant exploitation of the localization feature provided by the connected objects, the simplification of medical texts for the patients and the effective integration of the social media technology. The SM-IoT Platform also defines new contract-based security policies to ensure the confidentiality of patient's health information.