Fog and Cloud Computing-based IoT in Healthcare Monitoring System for Healthy Ageing

The Internet of Things (IoT), through portable devices and sensor networks, has the potential to transform the way in which healthcare monitoring systems collect and analyze patients' medical data. Nowadays, the IoT-based healthcare monitoring systems for the elderly require large amounts of data that needs to be transferred to a centralized database and from the database to cloud data centers, which leads to a decrease in the performance of such systems. Thus, fog computing provides innovative solutions by bringing resources closer to the user and by providing low latency and efficient solutions for data processing as against to cloud. In this paper, we present the “Non-invasive monitoring and health assessment of the elderly in a smart environment (RO-SmartAgeing)” project which supports elderly centered healthcare services in order to ensure illness prevention, personalized assistance and monitoring healthcare services. According to the current development state of the project, we propose a functional framework of the architecture of RO-SmartAgeing system based on IoT, Fog and Cloud Computing, present the hardware components of the system necessary for proper operation, the data flow chart of the RO-SmartAgeing system and an example of numerical validation and filtering of data from IoT devices.