TY - JOUR
T1 - Enabling Healthcare in Smart Homes: The SPHERE IoT Network Infrastructure
AU - Elsts, Atis
AU - Fafoutis, Xenofon
AU - Woznowski, Przemyslaw
AU - Tonkin, Emma
AU - Oikonomou, George
AU - Piechocki, Robert
AU - Craddock, Ian
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Healthcare professionals currently lack the means to gather unbiased and quantitative multi-modal data about the long-term behaviors of patients in their home environments. SPHERE is a multi-modal platform of non-medical sensors for behavior monitoring in residential environments that aims to overcome this major limitation of healthcare provision by using the inherently cost-efficient and scalable technologies of the Internet of Things (IoT). One of SPHERE's key tasks is to help bring the next-generation low-power wireless networking and sensing technologies from the lab to the field by applying them in real-world environments. In this article we describe the highlights of SPHERE's system requirements, architecture, practical challenges, and design and deployment lessons learned. By leveraging novel IoT technologies such as the IEEE 802.15.4 network protocol, SPHERE has achieved successful initial deployments in 12 volunteer houses at the time of this writing.
AB - Healthcare professionals currently lack the means to gather unbiased and quantitative multi-modal data about the long-term behaviors of patients in their home environments. SPHERE is a multi-modal platform of non-medical sensors for behavior monitoring in residential environments that aims to overcome this major limitation of healthcare provision by using the inherently cost-efficient and scalable technologies of the Internet of Things (IoT). One of SPHERE's key tasks is to help bring the next-generation low-power wireless networking and sensing technologies from the lab to the field by applying them in real-world environments. In this article we describe the highlights of SPHERE's system requirements, architecture, practical challenges, and design and deployment lessons learned. By leveraging novel IoT technologies such as the IEEE 802.15.4 network protocol, SPHERE has achieved successful initial deployments in 12 volunteer houses at the time of this writing.
U2 - 10.1109/MCOM.2017.1700791
DO - 10.1109/MCOM.2017.1700791
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0163-6804
VL - 56
SP - 164
EP - 170
JO - IEEE Communications Magazine
JF - IEEE Communications Magazine
IS - 12
ER -