Research Article
Towards Energy-Efficient HealthCare: an Internet-of-Things Architecture Using Intelligent Gateways
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257394, author={Jose Granados and Amir-Mohammad Rahmani and Pekka Nikander and Pasi Liljeberg and Hannu Tenhunen}, title={Towards Energy-Efficient HealthCare: an Internet-of-Things Architecture Using Intelligent Gateways}, proceedings={4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - "Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies"}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={MOBIHEALTH}, year={2014}, month={12}, keywords={internet of things power over ethernet healthcare smart hospital home care smart gateway}, doi={10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257394} }- Jose Granados
Amir-Mohammad Rahmani
Pekka Nikander
Pasi Liljeberg
Hannu Tenhunen
Year: 2014
Towards Energy-Efficient HealthCare: an Internet-of-Things Architecture Using Intelligent Gateways
MOBIHEALTH
IEEE
DOI: 10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257394
Abstract
The advancement of Internet of Things technologies is enabling continuous monitoring of patients at home and in hospitals. However, Internet of Things architectures still face many challenges regarding power efficiency and scalability at a low cost in order to realize massive ubiquitous deployment, especially in clinical environments. In this paper the benefits of combining data and power into a single cable that the Power over Ethernet standard provides have been leveraged by designing a Power over Ethernet enabled Internet of Things gateway which delivers both cloud connectivity and energy to medical sensors and smart hospital appliances. In addition, the gateway has been customized for processing and transmission of health related data in order to alleviate the processing overhead that wireless sensors have allowing them to extend the battery lifetime and overall system energy efficiency and performance.