Distributed management of pervasive healthcare data through cloud computing

Abstract

This paper presents a distributed platform based on Cloud Computing for management of pervasive healthcare data. Pervasive applications through continuous monitoring of patients and their context generate a vast amount of data that need to be managed and stored for processing and future usage. Cloud computing and service-oriented applications are the new trends for efficient managing and processing data online. The Cumulocity cloud platform utilized in this work is especially developed for the support of sensors and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication infrastructures. This paper presents an integrated system for managing sensor data related to the detection of disabled or elderly citizens falls. Wearable sensors collect the fall related data, which are then handled by the Cumulocity Cloud Platform. © 2012 ICST Institute for Computer Science, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.