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 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.

scholarly journals GNSS-Free Outdoor Localization Techniques for Resource-Constrained IoT Architectures: A Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 10793
Author(s):  
Azin Moradbeikie ◽  
Ahmad Keshavarz ◽  
Habib Rostami ◽  
Sara Paiva ◽  
Sérgio Ivan Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Smart Manufacturing ◽  
Localization Accuracy ◽  
Smart Transportation ◽  
Smart Healthcare ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Outdoor Localization

Large-scale deployments of the Internet of Things (IoT) are adopted for performance improvement and cost reduction in several application domains. The four main IoT application domains covered throughout this article are smart cities, smart transportation, smart healthcare, and smart manufacturing. To increase IoT applicability, data generated by the IoT devices need to be time-stamped and spatially contextualized. LPWANs have become an attractive solution for outdoor localization and received significant attention from the research community due to low-power, low-cost, and long-range communication. In addition, its signals can be used for communication and localization simultaneously. There are different proposed localization methods to obtain the IoT relative location. Each category of these proposed methods has pros and cons that make them useful for specific IoT systems. Nevertheless, there are some limitations in proposed localization methods that need to be eliminated to meet the IoT ecosystem needs completely. This has motivated this work and provided the following contributions: (1) definition of the main requirements and limitations of outdoor localization techniques for the IoT ecosystem, (2) description of the most relevant GNSS-free outdoor localization methods with a focus on LPWAN technologies, (3) survey the most relevant methods used within the IoT ecosystem for improving GNSS-free localization accuracy, and (4) discussion covering the open challenges and future directions within the field. Some of the important open issues that have different requirements in different IoT systems include energy consumption, security and privacy, accuracy, and scalability. This paper provides an overview of research works that have been published between 2018 to July 2021 and made available through the Google Scholar database.

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 Smart Healthcare Devices for Smart Cities: A Review

2020 ◽  
pp. 98-101
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Smart Healthcare ◽  
Smart Health ◽  
Care System

Smart City has become increasingly important worldwide since the last decade. It is the advanced system for communication among people with smart infrastructure ingrained in the smart city. In the smart city, the infrastructure will track and manage all basic facilities, health care, law implementation, water supply, traffic, and transport. Improvement in smart sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, mobile cloud computing, and intellectual services for the communication of information among the sensors, all these facilities built the base for the smart city. The smart health care system will perform an important part in transforming old cities into smart cities. Telecommunication engineering scientists have prepared smarter health services which are improving the standards of living of the society. These health care services significantly develop the quality of health care services in hospitals and also decrease the burden of health care professionals and paramedical staff. This research article presents the applications of a smart health care system which will benefit everyone in the society by providing easy telecommunication access to health care professionals and patients. This system will also track the patient's health online using wearable and implantable devices.

scholarly journals Towards Context-Aware Smart Healthcare Platform

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aldina Avdić ◽  
Ejub Kajan ◽  
Dragan Janković ◽  
Dženan Avdić
Keyword(s):  
Business Processes ◽  
Energy Savings ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Transportation Energy ◽  
Smart Transportation ◽  
Proper Actions ◽  
Smart Healthcare

This paper deals with the context-aware smart healthcare platform, based on IoT and citizen sensing. The proposed platform provides support to smart cities' citizens in the form of air quality visualization in their surroundings and by appropriate notifications in case of dangerous pollutants level is sensed. It also provides medical assistance based on “help needed” function, and where available, on the medical record of a patient that uses the platform services. The platform is interactive, so the information sent by the users and the requests for help will be processed. Platform development is based on a special kind of social machine that is capable to capture the city’s sensors data, analyze these data and to interact with appropriate business processes. On return, that interaction results with several goals achieved with the project. Presented dashboard visualization allows decision makers, e.g. medical staff, to take proper actions on time and on-the-fly. On the other side, citizens that suffer from a variety of disease problems are able to report an air pollution incident, and ask for help, if they felt worse. The platform itself has a wider usability value and may be deployed to other smart services in a city, e.g. waste management, smart transportation, energy savings, etc. It is also scalable and open for a variety of sensor devices ranges from smartphones, wearables, and other IoT that resides in a smart city, and for different forms of crowdsensing methods. Finally, concluding remarks emphasize the future research directions.

scholarly journals NORMALIZATION OF HEALTH RECORDS IN THE SERBIAN LANGUAGE WITH THE AIM OF SMART HEALTH SERVICES REALIZATION

2020 ◽  
pp. 825
Author(s):  
Aldina R. Avdić ◽  
Ulfeta A. Marovac ◽  
Dragan S. Janković
Keyword(s):  
Medical Records ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Health Records ◽  
Smart Healthcare ◽  
Textual Data ◽  
Efficient Data ◽  
Electronic Recording ◽  
Smart Health ◽  
Textual Form

The development of information technology increases its use in various spheres of human activity, including healthcare. Bundles of data and reports are generated and stored in textual form, such as symptoms, medical history, and doctor’s observations of patients' health. Electronic recording of patient data not only facilitates day-to-day work in hospitals, enables more efficient data management and reduces material costs, but can also be used for further processing and to gain knowledge to improve public health. Publicly available health data would contribute to the development of telemedicine, e-health, epidemic control, and smart healthcare within smart cities. This paper describes the importance of textual data normalization for smart healthcare services. An algorithm for normalizing medical data in Serbian is proposed in order to prepare them for further processing (F1-score=0,816), in this case within the smart health framework. By applying this algorithm, in addition to the normalized medical records, corpora of keywords and stop words, which are specific to the medical domain, are also obtained and can be used to improve the results in the normalization of medical textual data. 

The Internet of Things

2017 ◽  
pp. 167-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward T. Chen
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
The Internet ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Smart Health ◽  
Smart Living ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to increase quality of life, heighten performance of systems and processes, and save valuable time for businesses and people. Common objects and devices are being linked with Internet connectivity and have capabilities for data analytics that affect day-to-day experiences of both individuals and businesses. The notions of Smart Health, Smart Cities, and Smart Living come into play as the Internet of Things plays a role in today's world. This chapter presents IoT devices and application examples as well as descriptions of the benefits and limitations alongside an assessment of each respective technology's potential for success in the future. Security and privacy are important factors that need to be addressed within the different domains. This chapter addresses these potentials, issues, and challenges for managers to be prepared for the new wave brought forth by the IoT.

Business Development Independent Populist Economic Owned Enterprises as a Village

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (06) ◽  
pp. 20792-20799
Author(s):  
I Ketut Sunada ◽  
I Ketut Sandi
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Business Unit ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Economic Networks ◽  
Bargaining Position ◽  
Economic Infrastructure ◽  
Economic Assets ◽  
The Village

Bumdes is a village business unit whose capital comes from village-owned funds . The goal is to float the village potential into an independent village. Thus it takes effort and strategic and appropriate tips to achieve that goal. The first tip is to establish a forum for the development of economic networks in this case is the establishment of BUMDES. Some of the things that can be done are: (i) development of human resources capability so as to provide added value in the management of village economic assets, (ii) integrating rural economic products so as to have good bargaining position in market network, (iii) (iv) strengthening village economic institutions, (v) developing supporting elements such as micro-credit, market information, technological and management support, economic infrastructure and communication networks as well as support for guidance and regulation.

Security in Smart Healthcare System: A Comprehensive Survey

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
P. Jeyadurga ◽  
S. Ebenezer Juliet ◽  
I. Joshua Selwyn ◽  
P. Sivanisha
Keyword(s):  
Secure Communication ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Internet Security ◽  
Security Risk ◽  
System A ◽  
Smart Healthcare ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Healthcare Monitoring ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The Internet of things (IoT) is one of the emerging technologies that brought revolution in many application domains such as smart cities, smart retails, healthcare monitoring and so on. As the physical objects are connected via internet, security risk may arise. This paper analyses the existing technologies and protocols that are designed by different authors to ensure the secure communication over internet. It additionally focuses on the advancement in healthcare systems while deploying IoT services.

scholarly journals Security and Privacy Requirements for Electronic Consent

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Stef Verreydt ◽  
Koen Yskout ◽  
Wouter Joosen
Keyword(s):  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Inclusion Criteria ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Pubmed Central ◽  
Privacy Requirements ◽  
Development Lifecycle ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Server Systems

Electronic consent (e-consent) has the potential to solve many paper-based consent approaches. Existing approaches, however, face challenges regarding privacy and security. This literature review aims to provide an overview of privacy and security challenges and requirements proposed by papers discussing e-consent implementations, as well as the manner in which state-of-the-art solutions address them. We conducted a systematic literature search using ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplore, and PubMed Central. We included papers providing comprehensive discussions of one or more technical aspects of e-consent systems. Thirty-one papers met our inclusion criteria. Two distinct topics were identified, the first being discussions of e-consent representations and the second being implementations of e-consent in data sharing systems. The main challenge for e-consent representations is gathering the requirements for a “valid” consent. For the implementation papers, many provided some requirements but none provided a comprehensive overview. Blockchain is identified as a solution to transparency and trust issues in traditional client-server systems, but several challenges hinder it from being applied in practice. E-consent has the potential to grant data subjects control over their data. However, there is no agreed-upon set of security and privacy requirements that must be addressed by an e-consent platform. Therefore, security- and privacy-by-design techniques should be an essential part of the development lifecycle for such a platform.

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