Intercloud platform for connecting and managing heterogeneous services with applications for e-health

The paper focuses on the problem of interconnecting different cloud providers with the aim of offering enhanced services. The Intercloud scenario is based on the key concept that any cloud by itself does not have infinite natural resources or stable geographic location. The paper presents a distributed architecture for interconnecting existing cloud services, from different cloud providers (Firebase, Windows Azure, Parse), in order to achieve a scalable and flexible infrastructure. To validate the proposed solution an e-health prototype (both software and hardware) for monitoring a medical device (a pulse sensor) was built.