Smart health: A context-aware health paradigm within smart cities

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (8) ◽  
pp. 74-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agusti Solanas ◽  
Constantinos Patsakis ◽  
Mauro Conti ◽  
Ioannis Vlachos ◽  
Victoria Ramos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Smart Cities ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Smart Health

scholarly journals Sensors for Context-Aware Smart Healthcare: A Security Perspective

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (20) ◽  
pp. 6886
Author(s):  
Edgar Batista ◽  
M. Angels Moncusi ◽  
Pablo López-Aguilar ◽  
Antoni Martínez-Ballesté ◽  
Agusti Solanas
Keyword(s):  
Communication Networks ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Waiting Times ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Smart Healthcare ◽  
Smart Health ◽  
Real Time Information

The advances in the miniaturisation of electronic devices and the deployment of cheaper and faster data networks have propelled environments augmented with contextual and real-time information, such as smart homes and smart cities. These context-aware environments have opened the door to numerous opportunities for providing added-value, accurate and personalised services to citizens. In particular, smart healthcare, regarded as the natural evolution of electronic health and mobile health, contributes to enhance medical services and people’s welfare, while shortening waiting times and decreasing healthcare expenditure. However, the large number, variety and complexity of devices and systems involved in smart health systems involve a number of challenging considerations to be considered, particularly from security and privacy perspectives. To this aim, this article provides a thorough technical review on the deployment of secure smart health services, ranging from the very collection of sensors data (either related to the medical conditions of individuals or to their immediate context), the transmission of these data through wireless communication networks, to the final storage and analysis of such information in the appropriate health information systems. As a result, we provide practitioners with a comprehensive overview of the existing vulnerabilities and solutions in the technical side of smart healthcare.

scholarly journals A Long-range Context-aware Platform Design For Rural Monitoring With IoT In Precision Agriculture

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deniz TAŞKIN ◽  
Selçuk YAZAR
Keyword(s):  
Long Range ◽  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Soil Surface ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Wide Area Network ◽  
Performance Measurements ◽  
Iot Applications

The Internet of Things (IoT) applications has been developing greatly in recent years to solve communication problems, especially in rural areas. Within the IoT, the context-awareness paradigm, especially in precision agricultural practices, has come to a state of the planning of production time. As smart cities approach, the smart environment approach also increases its place in IoT applications and has dominated research in recent years in literature. In this study, soil and environmental information were collected in 17 km diameter in rural area with developed Long Range (LoRa) based context-aware platform. With the developed sensor and actuator control unit, soil moisture at 5 cm and 30 cm depth and soil surface temperature information were collected and the communication performance was investigated. During the study, the performance measurements of the developed Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) enabled Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) gateway were also performed.

scholarly journals A Survey of Context-Aware Messaging-Addressing for Sustainable Internet of Things (IoT)

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 4105
Author(s):  
Alaa Omran Almagrabi ◽  
Yasser D. Al-Otaibi
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Spatial Models ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Engineering Technology ◽  
Smart Transportation ◽  
Context Aware Computing ◽  
Iot Applications ◽  
Smart Healthcare

Nowadays, communication engineering technology is merging with the Internet of Things (IoT), which consists of numerous connected devices (referred to as things) around the world. Many researchers have shown significant growth of sensor deployments for multiple smart engineering technologies, such as smart-healthcare, smart-industries, smart-cities, and smart-transportation, etc. In such intelligent engineering technologies, sensors continuously generate a bunch of messages in the network. To enhance the value of the data in the messages, we must know the actuality of the data embedded inside the messages. For this purpose, the contextual information of the data creates a vital challenge. Recently, context-aware computing has emerged to be fruitful in dealing with sensor information. In the ubiquitous computing domain, location is commonly considered one of the most essential sources of context. However, whenever users or applications are concerned with objects, and their site or spatial relationships, location models or spatial models are necessary to form a model of the environment. This paper investigates the area of context-aware messaging and addressing services in diverse IoT applications. The paper examines the notion of context and the use of context within the data exchanged by the sensors in an IoT application for messaging and addressing purposes. Based on the importance and need for context of the information, we identify three critical categories of new IoT applications for context-aware messaging and addressing services: emergency applications, applications for guiding and reminding, and social networking applications. For this purpose, a representative range of systems is reviewed according to the application type, the technology being used, their architecture, the context information, and the services they provide. This survey assists the work of defining an approach for context-aware messaging services domain by discovering the area of context-aware messaging.

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