Integrating Internet of Things and Cloud Computing for Health Services Provisioning: The Virtual Cloud Carer Project

Abstract

The demographic and social changes are causing a gradual increase of the population in situation of dependency. The main concern of the elder people is their health and its consequences in terms of dependence and also is the primary cause of suffering and self-rated ill health. Since elder people have different health problems that the rest of the population, we need a deep change in national's health policy to get adapted to population aging. This paper describes the preliminary advances of "Virtual Cloud Carer" (VCC), a Spanish national R&D project, whose primary purpose is the creation of new health services for dependents and chronics elder lies, using technologies associated with internet of things and cloud computing.