I 2 PHEN: A Novel Interoperable IoT Platform for Medical Telemonitoring

Abstract

Medical telemonitoring is an undergoing development field all over the world. We propose in this paper our novel platform I 2 PHEN (IoT Interoperable Platform for low power HEalth moNitoring) that allows the monitoring of a patient’s health parameters using connected objects (blood pressure monitor, thermometer, glucometer,..) which communicate with the remote platform. The central server can then trigger alerts that were previously defined with the medical teams. For our platform we chose the LPWAN networks (Low-Power Wide Area Network) that offer a cost-effective alternative and are less expensive in terms of energy than cellular networks for transmitting small amounts of data from sensors and energy efficient battery powered objects over long distances. This field being new, and not widely used in the medical area, it is necessary to propose new solutions to remove some scientific barriers. The first obstacle is the availability and the reliability of these new networks, and more generally obtaining a better quality of service (QoS) necessary in the critical area of telemedicine: our COMMA first protocol is an answer. The second obstacle, and probably the most difficult, is to propose interoperable solutions in which connected objects can interact, through these new networks, with the remote platform using a local gateway: our MARC protocol is the answer.