Research Article
Design of a RESTful Middleware to Enable Web of Medical Things
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257408, author={Nada Philip and Ioanna Chouvarda and Andreas Raptopoulos and Drishty Sobnath and Pantelis Natsiavas and Nicos Maglaveras and Vassilis Kilintis and Talal Butt}, title={Design of a RESTful Middleware to Enable Web of Medical Things}, proceedings={International Workshop on Smart wearable and autonomous devices for wound monitoring and therapy}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={SWAD}, year={2014}, month={12}, keywords={component copd patient hub mhealth web of things restful integrated care welcome project pan ban;}, doi={10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257408} }- Nada Philip
Ioanna Chouvarda
Andreas Raptopoulos
Drishty Sobnath
Pantelis Natsiavas
Nicos Maglaveras
Vassilis Kilintis
Talal Butt
Year: 2014
Design of a RESTful Middleware to Enable Web of Medical Things
SWAD
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257408
Abstract
— In this paper, we consider the design methodology of a mobile patient hub for the remote self-management of COPD patients. The patient hub design forms a part of the WELCOME system. WELCOME is a current EU project that aims to design and develop a new mobile health system to provide integrated care for COPD patients with comorbidities. The approach adopted for this research is based on the Web of Things architecture with RESTful principles as the enabler of communications. The proposed patient hub architecture design is based on three layers: an application layer, a middleware layer and the sensors layer. This paper presents the detail of the initial design of the middleware and an analysis of the architecture in the context of the system’s requirements.