Edge Computing-Enabled Healthcare Framework to Provide Telehealth Services

Abstract

Telemedicine has the potential to bridge the huge urban-rural health divide that exists in many developing economies in the fastest and the most affordable way. Cloud Computing holds promise for providing an efficient, cost-effective, and pervasive telemedicine paradigm. With cloud computing, biomedical sensor data can be stored and analyzed remotely by remotely distributed servers. However, a huge volume of data is generated by smart medical devices [1]. Thus, there is a need to leverage the Edge Computing paradigm to process data closer to the source of data generation. This paper presents a healthcare framework that incorporates a promising Edge-IoT ecosystem - the EdgeX Foundry for the telehealth use case of Blood Pressure monitoring. The end-to-end system is broadly divided into three parts: the User subsystem, the Edge subsystem, and the Cloud subsystem. This paper presents the use of EdgeX Foundry for a telehealth application.