Architectural Approach for the Integration of Wireless Sensor Networks with Cloud Computing for a Secure Healthcare System

Abstract

The general scope of our work is to propose an architecture to integrate the healthcare cloud with wireless sensor network (WSN) technology through smart phones. This will enable monitoring patient health wirelessly with the smart phone devices providing real-time updates of patient's health via the cloud to doctors and other medical professionals. To achieve this, we propose a filter system on a smart phone running different healthcare apps which monitor and record the patient's vital signs. The proposed system model is simulated by creating an EMR system for a hospital using Java Spring web services and deploying it on Cloud foundry, a Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment. The proposed filter system is simulated using the filter app running on the android emulator sending alert SMS to another emulator instance on detection of abnormal patient health data. A priority ranking algorithm for finding the list of doctors to whom the abnormal data is to be sent, is proposed and implemented using Java 1.6 on Eclipse IDE.