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Systems-of-Systems Framework for Providing Real-Time Patient Monitoring and Care: Challenges and Solutions

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Systems-of-Systems (SoS) enable new emerging services in many application domains such as healthcare systems, transportation systems and the smart grid. However, satisfying real-time and reliability requirements is a prerequisite for the deployment of SoS in safety-relevant applications with stringent timing constraints. This book chapter describes a SoS framework for patient monitoring services, which supports the openness, dynamic nature and lack of global control in a SoS. The framework enables rehabilitation and recovery from illness by introducing sensing services, data analysis and real-time alert messages via monitoring centers. We address the temporal constraints by online scheduling of communication activities. In addition, data protection as well as security and privacy challenges are solved in the healthcare monitoring process.

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    Telemedicare project.

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    OSIRIS-SE project, “Runtime Environment for Data Stream Management in Healthcare”.

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    PhMon project, “Personal Health Monitoring System with Microsystem Sensor Technology”.

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    Accessibility and Usability Validation Framework for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Interaction Design Process, FP7.

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    With the extensive spread of smartphones, the processing element can be also a smartphone with the proposer applications designed for that purpose.

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Our thanks to Dr. Ala’aldeen Al-Halhouli, Dr. Samil Al Muhtasib, Dr. Yaser Mowafi, Dr. Mahmoud Sitohy, and Dr Mohamed Shaheen for their valuable comments and feedback.

This work has been supported in part by the European project DREAMS (No. 610640).

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Obermaisser, R., Abuteir, M., Khalifeh, A., Abou-Tair, D.e.D.I. (2015). Systems-of-Systems Framework for Providing Real-Time Patient Monitoring and Care: Challenges and Solutions. In: Fardoun, H., R. Penichet, V., Alghazzawi, D. (eds) ICTs for Improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques. REHAB 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 515. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48645-0_12

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