An ontology-based healthcare monitoring system in the Internet of Things
Sondes Titi, Hadda Ben Elhadj, Lamia Chaari Fourati · 2019
Continuous health monitoring is a hopeful solution that can efficiently provide health-related services to elderly people suffering from chronic diseases. The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies have led to their adoption in the development of new healthcare systems for efficient healthcare monitoring, diagnosis and treatment. This paper presents a healthcare-IoT based system where an ontology is proposed to provide semantic interoperability among heterogeneous devices and users in healthcare domain. Our work consists on integrating existing ontologies related to health, IoT domain and time, instantiating classes, and establishing reasoning rules. The model created has been validated by semantic querying. The results show the feasibility and efficiency of the proposed ontology and its capability to grow into a more understanding and specialized ontology for health monitoring and treatment.