WSN INTEGRATED CLOUD FOR AUTOMATED TELEMEDICINE ( ATM ) BASED e-HEALTHCARE APPLICATIONS

Nowadays Healthcare applications become more attractive among researchers due to a demand on a high quality and low cost care services at anytime and anywhere. Most of the existing healthcare systems rely only on their own data centers to store and process sensory data. It brings high cost to maintain the system, yet the performance is not reliable and a limited number of services can be provided. Many works exploit sensor networks to monitor patient’s health status and movements to provide care services to them. It requires sensory data to be transmitted and processed quickly so that physicians, clinics, and other caregivers can access conveniently via Internet. This paper presents our study and development of a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) integrated cloud computing for e-healthcare applications. WSNs can be deployed in hospitals or home environments. In this system sensor data is collected and sent to the clouds. Different users such as hospitals, clinics, researchers, or even patients themselves can access their data from the Clouds. Our architecture can provide cost efficient model for automating hospitals and other life care agencies, managing real-time data from various sensors, efficiently disseminating information to medical professionals, support privacy and strong authentication mechanism. Our versatile architecture makes it possible to launch web applications quickly and also upgrade e-healthcare applications easily as and when required. Our automated secure framework of community cloud would provide increasingly cheaper with the end-goal of better health outcomes in the future.