IoT-Health Platform to Monitor and Improve Quality of Life in Smart Environments

Having a full and healthy life is what most people want. This involves a set of domains such as physical and psychological health, social relationships, and environmental issues. Together, these domains can be used to characterize a person's Quality of Life (QoL). This desire for a healthy life becomes even more prominent as the world population ages. Thereby, new socioeconomic challenges arise, putting pressure on governments and industries to adopt technologies to improve QoL. One of the technologies that have been widely used is the Internet of Health Things (IoHT). However, developers still face challenges when proposing IoHT solutions, such as lack of interoperability, high volatility, difficulties in providing runtime adaptations, high development cost when it involves AI, and the absence of a semantic model for QoL data. Thus, this Ph.D. project aims to investigate the development of QoL-based IoHT systems to address these challenges. As a result, an IoT-Health Platform is expected to support this development and bring health professionals closer to this process.