Sensing as a service approach in health monitoring

Examining the reuse potentials of IoT application frameworks

“…Specifically, Zamfir et al (2016) proposed a platform for prototyping IoT applications in the healthcare monitoring sector. Additionally, Neagu et al (2016) focused on creating cloud solutions for IoT in the healthcare sector, introducing a Sensing as a Service platform. Levina et al (2017) adopted the IoT reference architecture presented in Fremantle (2015) for developing an intelligent transportation system.…”

“…The classification scheme adopted to assess the types of functionalities was inspired by the architecture proposed by Fremantle (2015). We choose to adopt this architecture model since it has been used in numerous research activities (Neagu et al, 2016;Pessoa and Duarte-Figueiredo, 2017;Zamfir et al, 2016). Also we believe that the specific reference architecture presents commonalities with the majority of the rest of the proposed architectures (Krčo et al, 2014;The Internet of Things Reference Model Whitepaper, 2014;Yelamarthi et al, 2017) across literature, thus making it a respectable choice.…”

“…Concerning the type of functionality, we based our categorization on the reference architecture proposed by Fremantle (2015). The specific architecture was chosen (a) considering its high adoption by other research practitioners in literature (Neagu et al, 2016;Pessoa and Duarte-Figueiredo, 2017;Zamfir et al, 2016) and (b) considering its high coverage in IoT architecture aspects (Krčo et al, 2014;The Internet of Things Reference Model Whitepaper, 2014;Yelamarthi et al, 2017). We acknowledge though, that the choice of the reference architecture model may alter the observed results.…”

Personalized Home Healthcare Options for Smart Service Delivery and Patient-Centered Monitoring

“…• The implementation of IoT technology for data collection is a technically difficult task for interested organizations. The "sensing as a service (SNaaS)" concept, developed by ICI Bucharest, aims to facilitate the access of these organizations to the collected data and to the results of their processing, without involving them in the technical aspects related to the implementation and maintenance of the IoT system (Neagu et al, 2016 • SNaaS is based on the role of the sensing service provider, which builds its offer to the beneficiary organizations by integrating specialized services, such as providing and maintaining the IoT devices, collecting and publishing in the cloud the data available from the IoT infrastructure, processing and advanced analysis of IoT data, ensuring access to data and information for different categories of users within the beneficiary organization. The role of these service providers is played by specialized firms on a contractual basis, but some of these services can even be implemented by the SNaaS provider.…”