IoT platforms interoperability for active and assisted living healthcare services support

Abstract

The paper proposes a novel approach to support interoperability between different IoT platforms with a particular focus on the support of Active and Assisted Living (AAL) healthcare services and applications. A novel IoT-based healthcare platform, supporting decentralized and mobile monitoring of assisted livings in highly heterogeneous contexts, can be obtained by integrating two already existing heterogeneous, non-interoperable IoT platforms (BodyCloud and universAAL) according to the strategy proposed in the ongoing INTER-IoT (Horizon 2020) European project. A specific healthcare assisted living use case, named INTER-Health, is deployed to both validate the INTER-IoT interoperability strategy and provide value added assisted living mobile healthcare services in terms of faster detection and correction of wrong lifestyles or critical situations.