Remote Secure eHealth Provision: ETSI SmartBAN as an Enabler

Abstract

Utilisation of Internet of Things (IoT) is spreading fast in modern home and industrial automation, but IoT solutions can also be widely utilised in healthcare domain. Monitoring of a person's vital signs and the connectivity between different medical devices are moving towards wireless implementation. Wearables and other health and wellbeing related personal gadgets carried by humans, or even implanted inside a human, are seeing to be more popular in healthcare applications. To respond to these challenges, new technologies in different domains are continuously developed. This paper is discussing the possibilities to effectively and reliably deliver eHealth services outside hospitals or other care units. In addition, we will introduce how ETSI SmartBAN can be utilised in various eHealth applications as well as how the security aspects should be taken into account when dealing with personal data.