Systems-of-systems framework for providing real-time patient monitoring and care

While the importance of System-of-Systems (SoS) is widely recognized, today's missing support for real-time and reliability requirements limits the realization of SoS in safety-relevant real-time applications. Today's reliable embedded real-time architectures are not suited to deal with the openness, dynamic nature and lack of global control in SoS. This paper describes a framework for providing scalable and effective monitoring services for patients' health and conditions to help them to rehabilitate and recover from their illnesses. Different from most of the proposed work in the literature, this framework utilizes the concept of systems-of-systems approach in sensing, analyzing the patients' information data, and issuing real-time alert messages to the healthcare monitoring center and proposes mechanisms to efficiently deal with the reliability and real-time data delivery challenges that are very essential in healthcare monitoring and reporting process.