Integrated IoT medical platform for remote healthcare and assisted living
Abdelrahman Rashed, Ahmed Jamal Ibrahim, Ahmed M. Adel, Bishoy Mourad, Ayman Hatem, Mostafa Magdy, Nada Elgaml, Ahmed Mahmoud Taha Khattab · 2017
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is receiving significant attention due to its promise to uplift the healthcare sector in general, and to promote care for the frail and aging patients in particular. The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) technology is a key facilitator for AAL. IoMT provides medical services that make smart hospital, doctors and patients interact in harmony leading to elevated healthcare levels. In this paper, we develop an integrated medical platform for remote health monitoring. The proposed multi-layer architecture senses and collects information about the patient vitals alongside his/her surrounding environment. Then, it relays such information to a cloud for storage and data analysis where further actions are applied for a better end user experience. Such data is accessible to the patient's healthcare providers and remote family members through a mobile application. We built and tested a prototype of the proposed IoMT architecture to illustrate how it achieves the AAL goals.