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Fog Computing in Healthcare Internet of Things: A Case Study on ECG Feature Extraction

Tuan Nguyen Gia, Mingzhe Jiang, Amir-Mohammad Rahmani, Tomi Westerlund, Pasi Liljeberg, Hannu Tenhunen, Fog Computing in Healthcare Internet of Things: A Case Study on ECG Feature Extraction. In: Yulei Wu, Geyong Min, Nektarios Georgalas, Jia Hu, Luigi Atzori, Xiaolong Jin, Stephen Jarvis, Lei Liu, Ramón Agüero (Eds.), 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology; Ubiquitous Computing and Communications; Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing; Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, 356 – 363, IEEE, 2015.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CIT/IUCC/DASC/PICOM.2015.51

Abstract:

Internet of Things technology provides a competent and structured approach to improve health and wellbeing of mankind. One of the feasible ways to offer healthcare services based on IoT is to monitor human's health in real-time using ubiquitous health monitoring systems which have the ability to acquire bio-signals from sensor nodes and send the data to the gateway via a particular wireless communication protocol. The real-time data is then transmitted to a remote cloud server for real-time processing, visualization, and diagnosis. In this paper, we enhance such a health monitoring system by exploiting the concept of fog computing at smart gateways providing advanced techniques and services such as embedded data mining, distributed storage, and notification service at the edge of network. Particularly, we choose Electrocardiogram (ECG) feature extraction as the case study as it plays an important role in diagnosis of many cardiac diseases. ECG signals are analyzed in smart gateways with features extracted including heart rate, P wave and T wave via a flexible template based on a lightweight wavelet transform mechanism. Our experimental results reveal that fog computing helps achieving more than 90% bandwidth efficiency and offering low-latency real time response at the edge of the network.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpGiJiRaWeLiTe15a,
  title = { Fog Computing in Healthcare Internet of Things: A Case Study on ECG Feature Extraction},
  booktitle = {2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology; Ubiquitous Computing and Communications; Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing; Pervasive Intelligence and Computing},
  author = {Gia, Tuan Nguyen and Jiang, Mingzhe and Rahmani, Amir-Mohammad and Westerlund, Tomi and Liljeberg, Pasi and Tenhunen, Hannu},
  editor = {Wu, Yulei and Min, Geyong and Georgalas, Nektarios and Hu, Jia and Atzori, Luigi and Jin, Xiaolong and Jarvis, Stephen and Liu, Lei and Agüero, Ramón},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  pages = {356 – 363},
  year = {2015},
}

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