The patient-centric mobile healthcare system enhancing sensor connectivity and data interoperability

The revolutionary improvements in low power devices and lightweight network protocols are making the mobile healthcare engage attentions. However there are some obstacles to realize mobile healthcare. Connectivity of miniaturized wearable sensors of the body area network (BAN) to the Internet is one of the most important issues in realizing mobile healthcare system. Interoperability is also important in order for sensor data not to be isolated in a local system. In this paper, we designed our mobile healthcare system resolving connectivity and interoperability issues. In our mobile healthcare system, body sensors are integrated by leveraging RESTful web service via CoAP over IPv6, enabling web-based access from browsers. Extended EPCglobal architecture was used for our system to enable sharing of sensor data among applications with different domain through the standardized protocol. We developed two applications, patient browser and EagleEye, to prove its feasibility.