In the framework of the e-health applications several new and challenging solutions will be developed thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT). The wearables devices and their networking can represent a data mine to be fed to new analytics and Big Data solutions to transform this huge amount of data into valuable information, in retail, in fitness, in wellness, in the Industry 4.0 and in precision medicine or in Smart Health in general.
In this project, we aim at exploiting the excellent opportunity to use the future 5G networks combined with the IoT to improve healthcare solutions. Ideally, future smart health solutions should provide services with near-zero latency, advanced quality-of-service capabilities, and data rates in the order of Gbps and massive type communications. We will set the relevant architectural model, study and define algorithms and protocols that can efficiently improve the system behavior as for the support of specific use cases that will be identified in the project itself (e.g. from fisiological measurments taken by IoT medical devices to videos streamed from some medical equipments to the cloud). We then will analyze, with new simulation tools, the performance of the provided solutions and pave the way towards an extensive use of IoT and 5G in the medical field.
