Secured Public Health data Management Framework using the Internet of Things in a Smart City Environment

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) is being embraced and impacts various aspects of lives. Integrating IoT technology in the healthcare sector paves the way for continuous remote monitoring of individuals' health status. The healthcare (HC) sector has traditionally produced substantial data. Due to the implementation of the IoT, this quantity has significantly increased.  Ensuring proper HC storage is imperative to derive meaningful insights from the data. This study presents a public health (PH) framework that utilizes cloudlets and IoT technology. The primary objective of this PH architecture is to facilitate the retrieval of real-time data by using cloudlets. The research provides and executes an HC  data management system to store vast HC  data and handle consumer queries to retrieve HC information.  The efficacy of the proposed model has been evaluated in terms of data transmission time, energy usage, query response time, and data packet loss. The proposed model outperforms existing PH systems by comparing the assessment findings of the proposed approach with the performance of typical PH systems.