Ontology-Driven IoT System for Monitoring Hypertension

Pedro Lopes de Souza, Pedro Lopes de Souza, Wanderley Lopes de Souza, Wanderley Lopes de Souza, Luís Ferreira Pires, João Luiz Rebelo Moreira, Ronitti Rodrigues, Ricardo Ciferri

2023

Abstract

Hypertension is a noncommunicable disease (NCD) that causes global concern, high costs and a high number of deaths. Internet of Things, Ubiquitous Computing, and Cloud Computing enable the development of systems for remote and real-time monitoring of patients affected with NCDs like hypertension. This paper reports on a system for monitoring hypertension patients that was built by employing these techniques. This system allows the vital signs of a patient (blood pressure, heart rate, body temperature) to be captured via sensors built in a wearable device similar to a wristwatch. These signals are transmitted to the patient’s mobile device for processing, and the generated clinical data are sent to the cloud to be properly presented and analysed by the health professionals responsible for the patient. To deal with semantic interoperability issues that arise when multiple different devices and system components must interoperate, a semantic model was conceived for this system in terms of ontologies for diseases and devices. This paper also presents the semantic module that we developed and implemented in the cloud to perform reasoning based on this model, demonstrating the potential benefits of incorporating semantic technologies in our system.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Lopes de Souza P., Lopes de Souza W., Ferreira Pires L., Luiz Rebelo Moreira J., Rodrigues R. and Ciferri R. (2023). Ontology-Driven IoT System for Monitoring Hypertension. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-648-4, SciTePress, pages 757-767. DOI: 10.5220/0011989100003467

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis23,
author={Pedro Lopes de Souza and Wanderley Lopes de Souza and Luís Ferreira Pires and João Luiz Rebelo Moreira and Ronitti Rodrigues and Ricardo Ciferri},
title={Ontology-Driven IoT System for Monitoring Hypertension},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2023},
pages={757-767},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011989100003467},
isbn={978-989-758-648-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - Ontology-Driven IoT System for Monitoring Hypertension
SN - 978-989-758-648-4
AU - Lopes de Souza P.
AU - Lopes de Souza W.
AU - Ferreira Pires L.
AU - Luiz Rebelo Moreira J.
AU - Rodrigues R.
AU - Ciferri R.
PY - 2023
SP - 757
EP - 767
DO - 10.5220/0011989100003467
PB - SciTePress