Edge Devices Internetworking to Pervasive Monitor and Control People in the Covid Age

Abstract

Aim of the paper is to illustrate a platform able to support internetworking of edge devices for health monitoring and control where the data sensed by the sensors in a network may be used to activate actions of actuators located in a network with a different administrator. This platform give rises to a wide real time system to monitor and control health parameters at distance, everywhere the people and the control processes are located and at every time. The paper discusses how this platform may be used to pervasive monitor and control people in the age of Covid. Some hints on how to forecast Covid diffusion and timely discover Covid incipience are given. Also the paper demonstrates how this platform may be built by means of micro gateways that support the networking of the main sensors and actuators available on the healthcare market and by web services that support their internetworking. This allows patients at home, doctors at hospitals and technicians at clinical analysis laboratories to be part of a distributed system to better control global events such as the Covid epidemy satisfying privacy conditions.