Smart Hospitals and IoT Sensors: Why Is QoS Essential Here?
Background: the increasing adoption of smart and wearable sensors in the healthcare domain empowers the development of cutting-edge medical applications. Smart hospitals can employ sensors and applications for critical decision-making based on real-time monitoring of patients and equipment. In this...
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| author | Vinicius Facco Rodrigues Rodrigo da Rosa Righi Cristiano André da Costa Rodolfo Stoffel Antunes |
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| description | Background: the increasing adoption of smart and wearable sensors in the healthcare domain empowers the development of cutting-edge medical applications. Smart hospitals can employ sensors and applications for critical decision-making based on real-time monitoring of patients and equipment. In this context, quality of service (QoS) is essential to ensure the reliability of application data. Methods: we developed a QoS-aware sensor middleware for healthcare 4.0 that orchestrates data from several sensors in a hybrid operating room. We deployed depth imaging sensors and real-time location tags to monitor surgeries in real-time, providing data to medical applications. Results: an experimental evaluation in an actual hybrid operating room demonstrates that the solution can reduce the jitter of sensor samples up to 90.3%. Conclusions: the main contribution of this article relies on the QoS Service Elasticity strategy that aims to provide QoS for applications. The development and installation were demonstrated to be complex, but possible to achieve. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-73c57dece122491eaecaa406eaa5eb6d2023-11-23T17:15:04ZengMDPI AGJournal of Sensor and Actuator Networks2224-27082022-07-011133310.3390/jsan11030033Smart Hospitals and IoT Sensors: Why Is QoS Essential Here?Vinicius Facco Rodrigues0Rodrigo da Rosa Righi1Cristiano André da Costa2Rodolfo Stoffel Antunes3Unisinos Software Innovation Lab (SOFTWARELAB), Applied Computing Graduate Program, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), São Leopoldo 93022-750, Rio Grande do Sul, BrazilUnisinos Software Innovation Lab (SOFTWARELAB), Applied Computing Graduate Program, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), São Leopoldo 93022-750, Rio Grande do Sul, BrazilUnisinos Software Innovation Lab (SOFTWARELAB), Applied Computing Graduate Program, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), São Leopoldo 93022-750, Rio Grande do Sul, BrazilUnisinos Software Innovation Lab (SOFTWARELAB), Applied Computing Graduate Program, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), São Leopoldo 93022-750, Rio Grande do Sul, BrazilBackground: the increasing adoption of smart and wearable sensors in the healthcare domain empowers the development of cutting-edge medical applications. Smart hospitals can employ sensors and applications for critical decision-making based on real-time monitoring of patients and equipment. In this context, quality of service (QoS) is essential to ensure the reliability of application data. Methods: we developed a QoS-aware sensor middleware for healthcare 4.0 that orchestrates data from several sensors in a hybrid operating room. We deployed depth imaging sensors and real-time location tags to monitor surgeries in real-time, providing data to medical applications. Results: an experimental evaluation in an actual hybrid operating room demonstrates that the solution can reduce the jitter of sensor samples up to 90.3%. Conclusions: the main contribution of this article relies on the QoS Service Elasticity strategy that aims to provide QoS for applications. The development and installation were demonstrated to be complex, but possible to achieve.https://www.mdpi.com/2224-2708/11/3/33healthcare 4.0internet of thingssensorsmiddlewarequality of service |
| spellingShingle | Vinicius Facco Rodrigues Rodrigo da Rosa Righi Cristiano André da Costa Rodolfo Stoffel Antunes Smart Hospitals and IoT Sensors: Why Is QoS Essential Here? Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks healthcare 4.0 internet of things sensors middleware quality of service |
| title | Smart Hospitals and IoT Sensors: Why Is QoS Essential Here? |
| title_full | Smart Hospitals and IoT Sensors: Why Is QoS Essential Here? |
| title_fullStr | Smart Hospitals and IoT Sensors: Why Is QoS Essential Here? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Smart Hospitals and IoT Sensors: Why Is QoS Essential Here? |
| title_short | Smart Hospitals and IoT Sensors: Why Is QoS Essential Here? |
| title_sort | smart hospitals and iot sensors why is qos essential here |
| topic | healthcare 4.0 internet of things sensors middleware quality of service |
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