Rural Healthcare IoT Architecture Based on Low-Energy LoRa

Ace Dimitrievski, Sonja Filiposka, Francisco José Melero, Eftim Zdravevski, Petre Lameski, Ivan Miguel Pires, Nuno M. Garcia, José Paulo Lousado and Vladimir Trajkovik
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Ace Dimitrievski: Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia
Sonja Filiposka: Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia
Francisco José Melero: Technological Centre of Furniture and Wood of the Region of Murcia (CETEM), 30510 Murcia, Spain
Eftim Zdravevski: Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia
Petre Lameski: Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia
Ivan Miguel Pires: Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade da Beira Interior, 6200-001 Covilhã, Portugal
Nuno M. Garcia: Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade da Beira Interior, 6200-001 Covilhã, Portugal
José Paulo Lousado: CISeD Research Centre in Digital Services, Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, 3504-510 Viseu, Portugal
Vladimir Trajkovik: Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 14, 1-25

Abstract: Connected health is expected to introduce an improvement in providing healthcare and doctor-patient communication while at the same time reducing cost. Connected health would introduce an even more significant gap between healthcare quality for urban areas with physical proximity and better communication to providers and the portion of rural areas with numerous connectivity issues. We identify these challenges using user scenarios and propose LoRa based architecture for addressing these challenges. We focus on the energy management of battery-powered, affordable IoT devices for long-term operation, providing important information about the care receivers’ well-being. Using an external ultra-low-power timer, we extended the battery life in the order of tens of times, compared to relying on low power modes of the microcontroller.

Keywords: connected health; LoRa; IoT (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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