Sensors, Vol. 20, Pages 6574: Remote Pain Monitoring Using Fog Computing for e-Healthcare: An Efficient Architecture

Sensors, Vol. 20, Pages 6574: Remote Pain Monitoring Using Fog Computing for e-Healthcare: An Efficient Architecture Sensors doi: 10.3390/s20226574 Authors: Syed Rizwan Hassan Ishtiaq Ahmad Shafiq Ahmad Abdullah Alfaify Muhammad Shafiq The integration of medical signal processing capabilities and advanced sensors into Internet of Things (IoT) devices plays a key role in providing comfort and convenience to human lives. As the number of patients is increasing gradually, providing healthcare facilities to each patient, particularly to the patients located in remote regions, not only has become challenging but also results in several issues, such as: (i) increase in workload on paramedics, (ii) wastage of time, and (iii) accommodation of patients. Therefore, the design of smart healthcare systems has become an important area of research to overcome these above-mentioned issues. Several healthcare applications have been designed using wireless sensor networks (WSNs), cloud computing, and fog computing. Most of the e-healthcare applications are designed using the cloud computing paradigm. Cloud-based architecture introduces high latency while processing huge amounts of data, thus restricting the large-scale implementation of latency-sensitive e-healthcare applications. Fog computing architecture offers processing and storage resources near to the edge of the network, thus, designing e-healthcare applications using the fog computing paradigm is of interest to meet t...
Source: Sensors - Category: Biotechnology Authors: Tags: Article Source Type: research