A Framework For Integration of A Patients’ Body Area Network With Iot

Abstract

In this paper, we give a framework for integration of patients’ Body Area Network with IoT. We also discuss the enabling technologies that may help with the proliferation of the IoT in healthcare, besides mitigating various interoperability challenges in a healthcare IoT. We use a healthcare use-case of an artificial pancreas for diabetic patients to discuss our framework. We describe the framework as a formal model of a healthcare IoT, which we map onto the components of a proposed end-to-end, closed-loop health-care IoT architecture. In this paper, we also discuss dependability in a healthcare IoT. As such, we describe why certification, standardisation, and dependability should be central for a healthcare IoT.