SOA Framework for Geriatric Remote Health Care Using Wireless Sensor Network

Abstract Remote healthcare system is widely used in developed and developing countries. Rapid development in network technologies and Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) provide anytime anywhere access of healthcare data. But Sensor Web Enablement faces challenges such as privacy, security, scalability etc. This paper proposes a framework that addresses above issues. The proposed framework comprises of Wireless Body Sensor Network (WBSN), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and web services to provide health services to the doctors, caregivers and patients. In order to address the privacy issues of sensitive health data, the proposed framework uses role based authorization technique to formulate the rules and decide whether to allow or deny the user access request. The proposed framework has been implemented using Java. Experimental results show that the proposed SOA framework guarantees high quality service with average response time of 0.237 ms and average throughput of 87%.