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Abstract | ||
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Over the last few years, the convincing forward steps in the development of Internet-of-Things (IoT) enabling solutions are spurring the advent of novel and fascinating applications. Among others, mainly Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), and smart mobile technologies are leading this evolutionary trend. In the wake of this tendency, this paper proposes a novel, IoTaware, smart architecture for automatic monitoring and tracking of patients, personnel, and biomedical devices within hospitals and nursing institutes. Staying true to the IoT vision, we propose a Smart Hospital System (SHS) which relies on different, yet complementary, technologies, specifically RFID, WSN, and smart mobile, interoperating with each other through a CoAP/6LoWPAN/REST network infrastructure. The SHS is able to collect, in real time, both environmental conditions and patients’ physiological parameters via an ultra-low-power Hybrid Sensing Network (HSN) composed of 6LoWPAN nodes integrating UHF RFID functionalities. Sensed data are delivered to a control center where an advanced monitoring application makes them easily accessible by both local and remote users via a REST web service. The simple proof of concept implemented to validate the proposed SHS has highlighted a number of key capabilities and aspects of novelty which represent a significant step forward compared to the actual state of art. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2015 | 10.1109/JIOT.2015.2417684 | IEEE Internet of Things Journal |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP), healthcare, hybrid networks, radio frequency identification (RFID), representational state transfer (REST), 6LoWPAN, smart environment, wireless sensor network (WSN) | Mobile technology,Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Personal area network,Computer science,Computer network,Wireless WAN,Constrained Application Protocol,Radio-frequency identification,6LoWPAN,Wireless sensor network | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
PP | 99 | 2327-4662 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
97 | 3.05 | 15 |
Authors | ||
7 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luca Catarinucci | 1 | 230 | 23.95 |
| Danilo De Donno | 2 | 211 | 16.09 |
| Luca Mainetti | 3 | 643 | 99.30 |
| Luca Palano | 4 | 97 | 3.05 |
| Luigi Patrono | 5 | 403 | 34.87 |
| Maria Laura Stefanizzi | 6 | 129 | 7.76 |
| Luciano Tarricone | 7 | 280 | 31.43 |