BodyCloud: Integration of Cloud Computing and body sensor networks

Abstract

Spatially distributed sensor nodes can be used to monitor systems and humans conditions in a wide range of application domains. A network of body sensors in a community of people generates large amounts of contextual data that requires a scalable approach for storage and processing. Cloud computing can provide a powerful, scalable storage and processing infrastructure to perform both online and offline analysis and mining of body sensor data streams. This paper presents BodyCloud, a system architecture based on Cloud Computing for the management and monitoring of body sensor data streams. It incorporates key concepts such as scalability and flexibility of resources, sensor heterogeneity, and the dynamic deployment and management of user and community applications.