Personalized Service Model for Sharing Medical

Devices in IoT Health-Platform

Byung Mun Lee

Dept. of Computer Engineering, Gachon University, Korea

bmlee@gachon.ac.kr

Abstract When mobile healthcare devicse are shared within a family or at

public offices, they are primarily used for measuring healthcare data and

checking them temporarily. However, if the devices can recognize the user and

transmit the measured data to a healthcare service platform in real time, it

becomes possible to continuously manage and monitor personal healthcare

information as opposed to being used for temporary purpose at public offices or

hospitals as it is the case today. In particular, use of smart phone or wearable

devices can create opportunities for new services and businesses. Accordingly,

this paper proposed a service model that allows user recognition function and

transmits/manages the measured data to a healthcare service platform when

simple medical devices such as blood pressure meter or weight are used and

shared among many users on IoT-based healthcare service platform. This model

can also be used as technology that allows patients with chronic illness to

perform self-diagnosis with convenience.

Keywords: mHealth, Security, eavesdropping, Bio information

1 Introduction

The growth of ICT technology has fostered the development of various mobile

applications [1]. In particular, various medical and healthcare service applications

such as medical or healthcare information service, a service that measures metabolic

activity and diet and calorie management services have been made available in the

market [2]. In particular, as watch-type or wrist wring-type wearable devices are

linked to mobile devices, customized service models are being introduced today

[3][4]. In addition, as various types of services are being provided on a healthcare

platform, open IoT healthcare platform designed to allow multiple devices to access

the platform is being proposed [5]. Such development is creating a demand for free

sharing of personal healthcare device and, therefore, it has become necessary to

conduct researches on a platform-sharing model [6]. In addition, growth of open IoT

platform has led to research and development of IoT devices with various functions,

creating an opportunity to develop a new service model [6][7][8]. This paper

proposed a personalized healthcare service model that can be used in a family or at

public offices under the structure in which mobile devices, IoT-based medical devices

and IoT platforms are mutually linked.

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2 Personalized Service Model for sharing medical device

In the Home in Figure 1, it is assumed that user (a) and (b) share IoT-based glucose

meter. Also, it is assumed that a personal mobile device was used to register the

glucose meter in the IoT platform server for each user to use. User (a) applies his

mobile device to the glucose meter to active measurement process, which starts user

recognition process (①). Then, the glucose meter and the IoT platform server both

execute a transmission process (②) in order to verify if the glucose information of the

user should be transmitted to the server at the medical center. Now, when the glucose

measurement is completed, the measured data is transmitted to the diabetes meter at

the medical office (③).

Fig. 1. Service model of sharing medical device

After the user (a) finishes his measurement, if user (b) wishes to use the same

glucose-meter, (b)'s smart phone is connected to the glucose-meter to activate the

glucose-meter, which recognizes the new connected user again (④). Just like in the

case of (a), the glucose meter and IoT platform server executes mutual transmission

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process (⑤) in order to determine if the user's glucose information should be

transmitted to the server at the medical center. Now, when the glucose measurement

is completed, the measured data is sent to the glucose meter at the medical center (⑥).

This means, even if the same medical device is used, the destination of the measured

data is dynamically determined according to the user. Also, even if the user (a) uses

the same type of medical device at public institutions, the data can be made to be sent

to the diabetes-meter at the medical office for appropriate user via user recognition

process. The service model proposed in this paper can provide customized personal

medical service when linked to mobile device, open IoT healthcare platform, and IoT-

based medical devices.

3 Conclusion

This paper proposed a personalized service model that enables free sharing of

personal medical devices in a family or public institutions by linking mobile devices

to IoT-based healthcare device and adopting service routing techniques offered by IoT

platform server. In order to implement such a service model, it is necessary to have

communication protocols and distributed processing among various devices. There

should be further researches on how to allow users to set up service configurations in

mobile devices and dynamically manage services. Also, there is a need to develop a

technique to allow autonomously transfer of data that has been measured according to

the configured service.

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