An IoT-Aware Architecture for Smart Healthcare Systems

IEEE Internet of Things Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 515-526

  Catarinucci, Luca ^a   De Donno, Danilo ^a   Mainetti, Luca ^a   Palano, Luca ^a   Patrono, Luigi ^a   Stefanizzi, Maria Laura ^a   Tarricone, Luciano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

6LoWPAN; Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP); healthcare; hybrid networks; radio frequency identification (RFID); representational state transfer (REST); smart environment; wireless sensor network (WSN)

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALS; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIO WAVES; SOLAR BUILDINGS; WEB SERVICES; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

6LOWPAN; CONSTRAINED APPLICATION PROTOCOL (COAP); HYBRID NETWORK; REPRESENTATIONAL STATE TRANSFER; SMART ENVIRONMENT;

INTERNET OF THINGS;

EID: 84961620802     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23274662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2015.2417684     Document Type: Article

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