Intelligent E-Health Gateway Based Ubiquitous Healthcare Systems in Internet of Things

In recent days there have been significant advances in the field of Internet of Things (IoT). At the same time there exists an ever-growing demand for ever-present healthcare systems to improve human health. Most of IoT based patient monitoring systems, in particular at smart homes or hospitals, there exists a bridging point (i.e., gateway) that connects the sensor network and the Internet established to perform basic functions such as translate between the protocols used in the Internet and sensor networks. The strategic position of gateways to offer several higher-level services to store the data in local memory, processing the real-time local data, embedded data mining, etc., proposing thus a Intelligent E-Health Gateway. In this proposed paper, an intelligent home-based platform, the iGateway Health-IoT, is proposed and implemented using simulator. Intelligent Ehealth gateway platform includes an openplatform-based intelligent medicine box (iMedBox) with enhanced connectivity and integration of devices and services with interchangeability. Intelligent pharmaceutical packaging (iMedPack) with communication facility enabled by passive radio-frequency identification (RFID) and actuation capability are enabled by efficient materials through flexible and wearable bio-medical sensor device (Bio-Patch) empowered by the state-of-the-art inkjet printing technology and system-on-chip. The proposed platform effortlessly fuses IoT devices (e.g., wearable sensors and smart medicine packages) provides in-home healthcare services (e.g., telemedicine) for improved user familiarity and service efficiency. The feasibility of the implemented iGateway Health-IoT platform has been proven in field trials. The results show that it is reliable and has low latency and high data transfer.