A pervasive tele-health system for continual and low intrusive monitoring using peer-to-peer networks

Authors:
Hanh Le;Nina Schiff;Johan Du Plessis;Doan B. Hoang
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, Room 307, Computer Science Building, Rondebosch, 7700, South Africa.;Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7700, South Africa.;Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7700, South Africa.;Department of Computer Systems, University of Technology, Sydney, Level 4, Building 10, 235 Jones Street, Ultimo, NSW, 2007, Australia
Venue:
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
Year:
2009

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Abstract

There are many people suffering from chronic illnesses, obesity and related diseases such as: high blood pressure, arrhythmia, diabetes, etc. However, with a large number of patients and constant health monitoring requirements, a centralised server will not be able to accommodate such high volumes of data. In this paper, the authors propose to develop a pervasive electronic healthcare system using peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. The authors developed a heart monitoring application as their first prototype to demonstrate the concept. The main advantage of the model is scalability and cost efficiency.