iMED-Tour: An IoT-based Privacy-assured framework for Medical Services in Smart Tourism

Tourism is one of the key revenue generators in communities worldwide. In the present day, traveling has become a lot easier with all the information available through the Internet. However, there are still challenges in identifying the right medical resources while traveling to a new city for the first time. In this research, we propose a privacy-assured framework that can help in identifying the medical services for a tourist. Through this research, we have developed a cost-effective tour wearable, iMED-Tour, that can notify the user if they need to visit a hospital service in case of emergency and provide suggestions for the preferred medical services. The proposed framework was evaluated for its latency with regards to the wearable’s performance and ability to find the shortest path. The iMED-Tour wearable had an overall latency in the order of few milliseconds and the shortest path algorithm implemented in CupCarbon had a latency of 10 seconds.