@INPROCEEDINGS{Ngoetal2015,
AUTHOR="Khoi Ngo and Saguna Saguna and Karan Mitra and Christer Åhlund",
TITLE="{IReHMo:} An efficient {IoT-Based} Remote health Monitoring System for
Smart Regions",
BOOKTITLE="2015 17th International Conference on E-health Networking, Application \&
Services (HealthCom) (IEEE Healthcom 2015)",
ADDRESS="Boston, USA",
DAYS="14",
MONTH=oct,
YEAR=2015,
KEYWORDS="remote health monitoring, Internet of Things, sensor communication,
eHealth, smart city, smart region",
ABSTRACT="The ageing population worldwide is constantly rising, both in urban and
regional areas. There is a need for IoT-based remote health monitoring
systems that take care of the health of elderly people without compromising
their convenience and preference of staying at home. However, such systems
may generate large amounts of data. The key research challenge addressed in
this paper is to efficiently transmit healthcare data within the limit of
the existing network infrastructure, especially in remote areas. In this
paper, we identified the key network requirements of a typical remote
health monitoring system in terms of real-time event update, bandwidth
requirements and data generation. Furthermore, we studied the network
communication protocols such as CoAP, MQTT and HTTP to understand the needs
of such a system, in particular the bandwidth requirements and the volume
of generated data. Subsequently, we have proposed IReHMo - an IoT-based
remote health monitoring architecture that efficiently delivers healthcare
data to the servers. The CoAP-based IReHMo implementation helps to reduce
up to 90\% volume of generated data for a single sensor event and up to
56\% required bandwidth for a healthcare scenario. Finally, we conducted a
scalability analysis to determine the feasibility of deploying IReHMo in
large numbers in regions of north Sweden."
}