A Storage as a Service scheme for supporting Medical Services on 5G Vehicular Networks

Abstract

Vehicular networks have emerged in recent years offering novel medical services to vehicular users. In-vehicle equipment such as On-Board Units (OBUs), Internet of Things (IoT) devices and sensors are used to supervise the health of on-board users and create an increasing amount of medical information. This information should be processed and then transmitted to medical units (e.g. hospitals) with the lowest possible processing and communication delays. Furthermore, it should be organized considering well-defined standards, in order to be easily reusable from third-party medical systems. Thus, the medical staff will be able to remotely provide immediate medical support to vehicular patients. In this paper, an interoperable Storage as a Service (STaaS) scheme which delivers medical data through a 5G wireless network architecture is described. The Health Level 7 (HL7) standard is applied for the manipulation of the collected medical data, ensuring the interoperability of the proposed scheme with third-party systems that use the same standard. The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is used to produce and manipulate the relative ontological descriptions about the collected data.