Ecosystem Analysis in the Design of Open Platform- based Mobile Healthcare Terminals towards Internet- of-Things

Personal mobile healthcare (PMH) services based on Internet-of-Things (IoT) have big potentials in business. To catch this opportunity, an ecosystem should be established first. Technical architectures should aim for a cooperative ecosystem by addressing the interoperability, security, and system integration. In this paper, we propose an ecosystem-driven design strategy and apply it in the design of in home PMH terminals. In particular, a cooperative ecosystem is formulated by merging the traditional healthcare and mobile internet ecosystems. Benefited from the existing standardization efforts, the interfaces between actors can be simplified. To balance the control and avoid monopoly, ecosystem-driven security schemes are proposed including the public-based authentication, repository-based credential management SE-based cryptography, and non-invasive message handover. In order to achieve the economy of scale, an open platform-based PMH Station is proposed for the convergence of in-home applications. The proposed methodology and solution have been proven by an implemented prototype terminal system and field trials. KeywordsEcosystem-Driven Design; Internet-of-Things; Personal Mobile Healthcare; Open Platform; Android; Security;