VITASENIOR-MT: A distributed and scalable cloud-based telehealth solution

VITASENIOR-MT is a telehealth platform that allows to remotely monitor biometric and environmental data in a domestic environment, designed specifically to the elderly population. This paper proposes a highly scalable and efficient architecture to transport, process, store and visualize the data col...

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Main Author: Mendes, Diogo (author)
Other Authors: Panda, Renato (author), Dias, Pedro (author), Jorge, Dário (author), António, Ricardo (author), Lopes De Oliveira, Luís Miguel (author), Pires, Gabriel (author)
Format: conferenceObject
Language:eng
Published: 2021
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/36776
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:comum.rcaap.pt:10400.26/36776
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Summary:VITASENIOR-MT is a telehealth platform that allows to remotely monitor biometric and environmental data in a domestic environment, designed specifically to the elderly population. This paper proposes a highly scalable and efficient architecture to transport, process, store and visualize the data collected by devices of an Internet of Things (IoT) scenario. The cloud infrastructure follows a microservices architecture to provide computational scalability, better fault isolation, easy integration and automatic deployment. This solution is complemented with a pre-processing and validation of the collected data at the edge of the Internet by using the Fog Computing concept, allowing a better computing distribution. The presented approach provides personal data security and a simplified way to collect and present the data to the different actors, allowing a dynamic and intuitive management of patients and equipment to caregivers. The presented load tests proved that this solution is more efficient than a monolithic approach, promoting better access and control in the data flowing from heterogeneous equipment.