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Distributed Management of Pervasive Healthcare Data through Cloud Computing

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Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (MobiHealth 2011)

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This paper presents a distributed platform based on Cloud Computing for management of pervasive healthcare data. Pervasive applications through continuous monitoring of patients and their context generate a vast amount of data that need to be managed and stored for processing and future usage. Cloud computing and service-oriented applications are the new trends for efficient managing and processing data online. The Cumulocity cloud platform utilized in this work is especially developed for the support of sensors and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication infrastructures. This paper presents an integrated system for managing sensor data related to the detection of disabled or elderly citizens falls. Wearable sensors collect the fall related data, which are then handled by the Cumulocity Cloud Platform.

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  1. University of the Aegean, Greece

    Charalampos Doukas

  2. Nokia Siemens Networks, Greece

    Thomas Pliakas

  3. National Technical University and Greek Research and Education Network, Greece

    Panayiotis Tsanakas

  4. University of Central Greece, Greece

    Charalampos Doukas & Ilias Maglogiannis

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  1. Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty, National Technical University of Athens, 9, Iroon Polytechniou, 15773, Athens, Greece

    Konstantina S. Nikita

  2. University of Illinois at Chicago, 851 S. Morgan M/C 154, 60607, Chicago, IL, USA

    James C. Lin

  3. Dept.of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, 451 10, Ioannina, Greece

    Dimitrios I. Fotiadis

  4. Dpto. Tecnología Fotónica, ETSI Telecomunicación, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Life Supporting Technologies, Ciudad Universitaria, s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    Maria-Teresa Arredondo Waldmeyer

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Doukas, C., Pliakas, T., Tsanakas, P., Maglogiannis, I. (2012). Distributed Management of Pervasive Healthcare Data through Cloud Computing. In: Nikita, K.S., Lin, J.C., Fotiadis, D.I., Arredondo Waldmeyer, MT. (eds) Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare. MobiHealth 2011. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 83. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29734-2_53

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