AN OVERVIEW OF A PERVASIVE AND PERSONALIZED SMART HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM USING IOT

In the last few years, the convincing forward steps in the development of Internet-of-Things (IoT) enabling solutions are spurring the advent of novel and fascinating applications. Among others, mainly Near Field Communication(NFC), Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), Image Processing and smart mobile technologies are leading this evolutionary trend. In the system a novel idea of IoT based, smart architecture for automatic monitoring and tracking of patient's personnel, and biomedical conditions within hospitals and nursing institutes is proposed. Staying true to the IoT vision, we propose a Pervasive and Personalized Smart Health-Care System (PPSHS) which relies on different, yet complementary, technologies, specifically NFC, WSN, Image Processing for Motion Detection using smart mobile devices, inter-operating with each other through a CoAP/NFC/SOAP network infrastructure. The PPSHS is able to collect, in real time, both environmental conditions and patient's physiological parameters via an Hybrid Sensing Network (HSN) composed of nodes integrating NFC and WSN functionalities. Sensed data are delivered to a control center where an advanced monitoring application in cloud makes them easily accessible to both local and remote users via a SOAP web service.