Design of a RESTful middleware to enable a web of medical things

Author

Philip, N. ; Butt, T. ; Sobnath, D. ; Kayyali, R. ; Nabhani-Gebara, S. ; Pierscionek, B. ; Chouvarda, I. ; Kilintis, V. ; Natsiavas, P. ; Maglaveras, Nicos ; Raptopoulos, A.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Sci., Eng. & Comput., Kingston Univ., Kingston upon Thames, UK

fYear

2014

fDate

3-5 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

361

Lastpage

364

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the design methodology of a mobile patient hub for the remote self-management of COPD patients. The patient hub design forms a part of the WELCOME system. WELCOME is a current EU project that aims to design and develop a new mobile health system to provide integrated care for COPD patients with comorbidities. The approach adopted for this research is based on the Web of Things architecture with RESTful principles as the enabler of communications. The proposed patient hub architecture design is based on three layers: an application layer, a middleware layer and the sensors layer. This paper presents the detail of the initial design of the middleware and an analysis of the architecture in the context of the system´s requirements.

Keywords

Internet of Things; biomedical equipment; diseases; medical diagnostic computing; middleware; mobile computing; telemedicine; wireless sensor networks; COPD patients; EU project; RESTful middleware design; WELCOME system; application layer; comorbidities; design methodology; integrated care; middleware layer; mobile health system; mobile patient hub; patient hub architecture design; remote self-management; sensors layer; system requirements; web-of-medical things; Computer architecture; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Intelligent sensors; Mobile communication; Web servers; BAN; COPD; Integrated care; PAN; Patient-hub; RESTful; WELCOME project; Web of Things; mhealth;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (Mobihealth), 2014 EAI 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MOBIHEALTH.2014.7015986

Filename

7015986