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Rural Healthcare IoT Architecture Based on Low-Energy LoRa

Connected health is expected to introduce an improvement in providing healthcare and doctor-patient communication while at the same time reducing cost. Connected health would introduce an even more significant gap between healthcare quality for urban areas with physical proximity and better communic...

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Autores principales: Dimitrievski, Ace, Filiposka, Sonja, Melero, Francisco José, Zdravevski, Eftim, Lameski, Petre, Pires, Ivan Miguel, Garcia, Nuno M., Lousado, José Paulo, Trajkovik, Vladimir
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8307208/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34300112
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18147660
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author Dimitrievski, Ace
Filiposka, Sonja
Melero, Francisco José
Zdravevski, Eftim
Lameski, Petre
Pires, Ivan Miguel
Garcia, Nuno M.
Lousado, José Paulo
Trajkovik, Vladimir
author_facet Dimitrievski, Ace
Filiposka, Sonja
Melero, Francisco José
Zdravevski, Eftim
Lameski, Petre
Pires, Ivan Miguel
Garcia, Nuno M.
Lousado, José Paulo
Trajkovik, Vladimir
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description Connected health is expected to introduce an improvement in providing healthcare and doctor-patient communication while at the same time reducing cost. Connected health would introduce an even more significant gap between healthcare quality for urban areas with physical proximity and better communication to providers and the portion of rural areas with numerous connectivity issues. We identify these challenges using user scenarios and propose LoRa based architecture for addressing these challenges. We focus on the energy management of battery-powered, affordable IoT devices for long-term operation, providing important information about the care receivers’ well-being. Using an external ultra-low-power timer, we extended the battery life in the order of tens of times, compared to relying on low power modes of the microcontroller.
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spelling pubmed-83072082021-07-25 Rural Healthcare IoT Architecture Based on Low-Energy LoRa Dimitrievski, Ace Filiposka, Sonja Melero, Francisco José Zdravevski, Eftim Lameski, Petre Pires, Ivan Miguel Garcia, Nuno M. Lousado, José Paulo Trajkovik, Vladimir Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Connected health is expected to introduce an improvement in providing healthcare and doctor-patient communication while at the same time reducing cost. Connected health would introduce an even more significant gap between healthcare quality for urban areas with physical proximity and better communication to providers and the portion of rural areas with numerous connectivity issues. We identify these challenges using user scenarios and propose LoRa based architecture for addressing these challenges. We focus on the energy management of battery-powered, affordable IoT devices for long-term operation, providing important information about the care receivers’ well-being. Using an external ultra-low-power timer, we extended the battery life in the order of tens of times, compared to relying on low power modes of the microcontroller. MDPI 2021-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8307208/ /pubmed/34300112 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18147660 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Trajkovik, Vladimir
Rural Healthcare IoT Architecture Based on Low-Energy LoRa
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8307208/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34300112
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18147660
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