HealthStack: providing an IoT middleware for malleable QoS service stacking for Healthcare 4.0

Orientador(a) (dc.contributor.advisor)Righi, Rodrigo da Rosa
Coorientador(a) (dc.contributor.advisor-co1)Costa, Cristiano André da
Lattes Coorientador(a) (dc.contributor.advisor-co1Lattes)http://lattes.cnpq.br/9637121030877187pt_BR
Lattes Orientador(a) (dc.contributor.advisorLattes)http://lattes.cnpq.br/2332604239081900pt_BR
Autor(a) (dc.contributor.author)Rodrigues, Vinicius Facco
Autor(a) Lattes (dc.contributor.authorLattes)http://lattes.cnpq.br/8625526295177399pt_BR
Data de Disponibilização (dc.date.accessioned)2022-01-20T17:26:35Z
dc.date.available (dc.date.available)2022-01-20T17:26:35Z
Data da defesa / Data do evento (dc.date.issued)2020-12-08
Resumo (dc.description.resumo)Healthcare 4.0 is a new concept that originates from hospitals’ evolution due to technological advances in medical activities. Nowadays, more and more doctors and healthcare administrators require real-time data analysis from sensors and surgery monitoring. In such settings, having real-time information may represent the difference between death or life. Currently, the analysis of data from medical settings takes place reactively. Actions to tackle problems with the patients’ health are only taken when critical situations take place. With the arrival of the Internet of Things (IoT) in these environments, the data revolution can allow medical processes to generate many sorts of real-time data automatically. Specialized applications rely on centralized systems to transform medical data into precise feedback so that actuators, whether humans or not, can take the right actions. Although positive, centralized systems suffer from scalability problems. As the connected number of sensors and applications increase, the system might fail due to too many connections. Therefore, quality of service (QoS) is essential because, without it, the applications’ results become unreliable. Although several approaches currently provide QoS for healthcare applications, it is still challenging to produce real-time data from sensors. More specifically, current studies present architecture models that employ different strategies to optimize the time to deliver data from sensors to the final users. Although presenting valuable contributions, they are restrained by the following limitations: (i) do not focus on hospital high critical environments; (ii) do not combine multiple strategies in different levels; (iii) do not put effort specifically in real-time data transmissions; and (iv) do not consider all relevant information for workflow analysis. Given the background, this study proposes HealthStack, a sensor middleware model for hospital settings. HealthStack collects data from sensors, stores them in a database, and delivers them to user applications meeting QoS requirements. HealthStack aims at reducing the delay and jitter in sensor data transmissions for user applications and, at the same time, reduce resource consumption. The model prototype was developed and tested in an operating room with depth cameras and an ultra-wideband (UWB) real-time location system (RTLS) for surgery workflow monitoring. This study presents scientific and technical contributions, and also contributions to society on behalf of hospital services. Its scientific contributions are twofold: a middleware model for healthcare environments with automatic QoS support for real-time data transmission; and a QoS strategy based on artificial neurons to select middleware components with poor performance. The experiments demonstrate that the strategy can improve the applications experienced jitter mean by 92.3% and delay mean by 28% for position data samples. Also, it resulted in a reduction of network, memory, and CPU consumption by up to 66.4%, 5.06%, and 48.3%, respectively. Besides the technical contributions, the solution offers a new level of reliability to time-critical applications directly impacting the patients’ health. This research provides the improvement of medical services for patients, contributing to the hospital administration processes because they can access real-time data with QoS guarantees.en
Agência de fomento (dc.description.sponsorship)CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superiorpt_BR
URI (dc.identifier.uri)http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/10859
Idioma (dc.language)pt_BRpt_BR
Nome da instituição (dc.publisher)Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinospt_BR
País da Instituição (dc.publisher.country)Brasilpt_BR
Departamento (dc.publisher.department)Escola Politécnicapt_BR
Sigla da Instituição (dc.publisher.initials)Unisinospt_BR
Programa (dc.publisher.program)Programa de Pós-Graduação em Computação Aplicadapt_BR
Direitos de acesso ao documento (dc.rights)openAccesspt_BR
Assunto (dc.subject)Internet of thingsen
Assunto (dc.subject)Healthcareen
Assunto (dc.subject)Distributed systemsen
Assunto (dc.subject)Quality of serviceen
Assunto (dc.subject)Medical informaticsen
Tema (CNPq) (dc.subject.cnpq)ACCNPQ::Ciências Exatas e da Terra::Ciência da Computaçãopt_BR
Título (dc.title)HealthStack: providing an IoT middleware for malleable QoS service stacking for Healthcare 4.0en
Tipo de arquivo (dc.type)Tesept_BR

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