M3IoT — Message-oriented middleware for M-health Internet of Things: Design and validation

Abstract

Traditional healthcare approaches, based on prolonged stay in hospitals, imply higher and higher costs, especially considering trends in demographical shifts. A possible solution to reduce costs and improve patients' life quality is the adoption of Connected Health-CH-paradigm. The Internet of Things-IoT-approach is applied in the healthcare context in order to deliver personalized treatments and to allow doctors to gather detailed information about patients' health. In this paper, authors present a Message-Oriented Middleware approach for unifying interactions among CH actors. The ISO/IEEE11073 standard has been considered as a reference for data modelling, and a JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) data description has been defined to be transported by the AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) protocol. An embedded platform has been used for implementing a proof-of-concept prototype, showing feasibility and obtainable performance of the proposed solution.