Title :
Wearable Internet of Things: Concept, architectural components and promises for person-centered healthcare
Author :
Hiremath, Shivayogi ; Geng Yang ; Mankodiya, Kunal
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys. Med. & Rehabilitation, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
The proliferation of mobile devices, ubiquitous internet, and cloud computing has sparked a new era of Internet of Things (IoT), thus allowing researchers to create application-specific solutions based on the interconnection between physical objects and the internet. Recently, wearable devices are rapidly emerging and forming a new segment-“Wearable IoT (WIoT)” due to their capability of sensing, computing and communication. Future generations of WIoT promise to transform the healthcare sector, wherein individuals are seamlessly tracked by wearable sensors for personalized health and wellness information-body vital parameters, physical activity, behaviors, and other critical parameters impacting quality of daily life. This paper presents an effort to conceptualize WIoT in terms of their design, function, and applications. We discuss the building blocks of WIoT-including wearable sensors, internet-connected gateways and cloud and big data support-that are key to its future success in healthcare domain applications. We also present a new system science for WIoT that suggests future directions, encompassing operational and clinical aspects.
Keywords :
Internet of Things; biomedical telemetry; body sensor networks; cloud computing; health care; telemedicine; Wearable IoT; application-specific solutions; architectural components; big data support; body vital parameters; cloud computing; cloud data support; healthcare domain applications; internet-connected gateways; mobile device proliferation; person-centered healthcare; personalized health; physical activity; physical objects; ubiquitous internet; wearable Internet-of-things; wearable sensors; wellness information; Biomedical monitoring; Cloud computing; Medical services; Mobile communication; Smart phones; Wearable sensors; Internet of Things; Mobile Health; Person-Centered Healthcare; Pervasive Healthcare; Wearable Sensors;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (Mobihealth), 2014 EAI 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Athens
DOI :
10.1109/MOBIHEALTH.2014.7015971