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A Platform Architecture for m-Health Internet of Things Applications

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Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (MobiHealth 2022)

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In the last few years, several researchers have been focusing their research work on some specific applications of the Internet of Things, such as the Health Internet of Things (m-Health IoT). As in other IoT applications, integrating IoT devices and applications/platforms from different manufacturers/developers in Health-IoT can be challenging. Even though standards are available and used, there are many possible standards and different devices use different communication protocols and data formats. Also, the integration leads to the need to develop new ad hoc code that will fit only that particular integration. This paper presents a proposal for a platform that uses a modular architecture and enables the seamless integration of different components of an m-health IoT platform. Components can be dynamically added or removed from the platform, in run-time without impacting the already existing components and without the need of downtime of the platform to include the new components.

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Project “(Link4S)ustainability - A new generation connectivity system for creation and integration of networks of objects for new sustainability paradigms [POCI-01-0247-FEDER-046122—LISBOA-01-0247-FEDER-046122]” is financed by the Operational Competitiveness and Internationalization Programmes COMPETE 2020 and LISBOA 2020, under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, and through the European Structural and Investment Funds in the FEDER component.

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    Pedro Mestre, Ertugrul Dogruluk, Carlos Ferreira, Rui Cordeiro, João Valente, Sérgio Branco & Jorge Cabral

  2. Universtity of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal

    Pedro Mestre

  3. Mobile Centric Architecture and Solutions, NOS Technology, Lisbon, Portugal

    Bruno Gaspar

  4. ALGORITMI Research Centre/LASI, University of Minho, 4800-058, Guimarães, Portugal

    Pedro Mestre & Jorge Cabral

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Mestre, P. et al. (2023). A Platform Architecture for m-Health Internet of Things Applications. In: Cunha, A., M. Garcia, N., Marx Gómez, J., Pereira, S. (eds) Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare. MobiHealth 2022. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 484. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32029-3_16

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