TY - JOUR
T1 - Developing an IoT Platform for the Elderly Health Care
AU - Awadalla, Medhat
AU - Kausar, Firdous
AU - Ahshan, Razzaqul
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT The Sultan Qaboos University supports the work in this paper under the internal grant approved for the research project code number IG/ENG/ECED/21/01. Moreover, we are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their valued feedback.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The health care of elderly people addresses the necessity for services that utilize recent technologies and devices. Now-a-days, both loneliness and psychological depressions are typical problems which elderly people face because of living alone/abandoned or reduced communication with their children and relatives. This paper presents the development of an integrated platform using the Internet of Things to manage and provide extensive services for elderly people to address the aforementioned issues. The proposed platform relies on wearable sensor devices to collect real-time data and store it in a cloud server via a developed smartphone application. The cloud server is accessed to retrieve data stored using the OAuth protocol. A web-based database-driven application is developed that facilitates the management of helpful information about elderly people to an authorized person. The doctors can perform realtime monitoring of the health condition of their elder patients remotely, and the system generates an alarm and sends notifications to caregivers and doctors in case of emergency. The conducted experiments and the achieved results showed that the developed platform has remarkable features of accessibility, security, efficiency, and cost.
AB - The health care of elderly people addresses the necessity for services that utilize recent technologies and devices. Now-a-days, both loneliness and psychological depressions are typical problems which elderly people face because of living alone/abandoned or reduced communication with their children and relatives. This paper presents the development of an integrated platform using the Internet of Things to manage and provide extensive services for elderly people to address the aforementioned issues. The proposed platform relies on wearable sensor devices to collect real-time data and store it in a cloud server via a developed smartphone application. The cloud server is accessed to retrieve data stored using the OAuth protocol. A web-based database-driven application is developed that facilitates the management of helpful information about elderly people to an authorized person. The doctors can perform realtime monitoring of the health condition of their elder patients remotely, and the system generates an alarm and sends notifications to caregivers and doctors in case of emergency. The conducted experiments and the achieved results showed that the developed platform has remarkable features of accessibility, security, efficiency, and cost.
KW - Internet of things
KW - healthcare
KW - real-time monitoring
KW - sensor network
KW - wearable sensors
KW - wireless sensor networks
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U2 - 10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0120453
DO - 10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0120453
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85105808717
SN - 2158-107X
VL - 12
SP - 410
EP - 417
JO - International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications
JF - International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications
IS - 4
ER -