Smart Spaces Enabled Mobile Healthcare Services in Internet of Things Environments

Smart Spaces Approach

The smart spaces approach aims in constructing advanced service-oriented systems for ubiquitous computing and IoT-aware environments (Korzun, Balandin, & Gurtov, 2013). In contrast to the giant global graph approach of Semantic Web, smart spaces apply the localization principle: do not duplicate data from the whole world but relate locally the problem-aware fragments from multiple sources. Massive data are kept in appropriate external databases and information systems on backend servers. A service is constructed by interaction of software agents. They access the smart space as a shared semantic information hub and use the publish/subscribe coordination model for interaction. The emerging role of smart spaces approach for development of m-Health services is discussed in (Borodin, Zavyalova, & Yamushev, 2015; Korzun, Nikolaevskiy & Gurtov, 2015; Korzun, Borodin, Timofeev, Paramonov, & Balandin, 2015).