Building a cloud-based platform for personal health sensor data management

Abstract

Recent developments of modern technologies such as cloud computing, wearable sensor devices and big data have significantly impacted people's daily lives, and offer real potential for an Internet-wide, people-centric ecosystem. These advances in technology will considerably extend human capabilities in acquiring, consuming and sharing personal health information. A future in which we are all equipped with devices and sensors that passively collect data and interpret our health and activity status is not far away. The key challenge that we will be facing is how to effectively manage and use that big data. In this paper, we propose a cloud-based platform for health sensor data management, named Wiki-Health, which will provide a potential solution for storing, tagging, retrieving, analysing, comparing and searching health sensor data.