Towards a Web of Things-based system for a smart hospital

The adoption of the Web of Things (WoT) has revolutionized the medical sector by giving rise to a number of easy-to-use solutions. In this context, improving remote patient health monitoring in a hospital is a recurring consideration, due to various difficulties encountered by medical staff during the performance of their duties, such as heavy workload, manual input of patient data, delays in treatments or interventions, and possible human errors (diagnostic, dosage, etc.). For this matter, we propose a platform that allows to permanently monitor the vital signs of hospitalized patients using sensors. Automatic intervention scenarios are developed to provide the necessary treatment to the patient remotely. In case of life-threatening circumstances, the medical staff is alerted by receiving notifications summarizing the patient's condition. Based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA), the successful sequencing of these functionalities depends on the composition of the different Web services exposed by the smart things connected to the Web.