OCF Healthcare Proof of Concept (PoC) on Libelium MySignals

IoT (Internet of Things) promotes connectivity among devices of different domains including smart home, healthcare, automotive, etc. Healthcare and fitness applications, in particular, are considered as one of the biggest beneficiaries of the widespread IoT ecosystem and the authors defined such applications as "Healthcare IoT". In this paper, the authors implemented a PoC (Proof of Concept) of healthcare IoT using OCF specifications, IoTivity open source and commercially available Libelium MySignals. A number of healthcare data models that support four different healthcare devices were proposed. Server and client were developed by improving the IoTivity source code for Java and C++, respectively. The authors concluded by providing the implication of the overall implementation and future directions.