Sharing as a Principle for Medical Device Management

Caused by the proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its related application domains such as E-Health, users face a continuously increasing amount of heterogeneous sensors and devices deployed in their environment. As a result, a large variety of protocols, data formats and physical sensing resources needs to be managed in order to gain benefit from the deployed devices. Furthermore, the IoT lacks resource management concepts like on-demand provisioning, resource pooling, or Pay-as-you-Go, which became popular along with Cloud Computing applications. As a possible solution, the paper presents the Device Cloud approach that aims at applying these Cloud Computing resource management paradigms to the IoT domain. A specific E-Health use case will be discussed to emphasize the applicability of pooling and sharing ubiquitous sensors and devices.