Service Oriented Architecture for Patient Monitoring Application

This paper presents a new approach that exploits service oriented architecture (SOA) for patient monitoring application. In particular, we describe the use of web services, UPnP and semantic web in a loosely coupled manner to monitor dementia patients, model sensors and pervasive devices as services, and enable proactive action for handling patients by automatically triggering intervention services. The proposed architecture enables the development of a sophisticated monitoring system to facilitate care-giving and clinical assessment of patients in a context enlightened fashion within an administrative domain and across the internet that exceeds the current state-of-the-art in terms of scalability, interoperability, intelligence and robustness.