TY - JOUR A1 - Prieto-González, Lisardo A1 - Jaedicke, Corvin A1 - Schubert, Johannes A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir T1 - Fog computing architectures for healthcare: Wireless performance and semantic opportunities T2 - Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society N2 - Purpose – The purpose of this study is to analyze how embedding of self-powered wireless sensors into cloud computing further enables such a system to become a sustainable part of work environment. Design/methodology/approach – This is exemplified by an application scenario in healthcare that was developed in the context of the OpSIT project in Germany. A clearly outlined three-layer architecture, in the sense of Internet of Things, is presented. It provides the basis for integrating a broad range of sensors into smart healthcare infrastructure. More specifically, by making use of short-range communication sensors (sensing layer), gateways which implement data transmission and low-level computation (fog layer) and cloud computing for processing the data (application layer). Findings – A technical in-depth analysis of the first two layers of the infrastructure is given to provereliability and to determine the communication quality and availability in real-world scenarios. Furthermore, two example use-cases that directly apply to a healthcare environment are examined,concluding with the feasibility of the presented approach. Practical implications – Finally, the next research steps, oriented towards the semantic tagging and classification of data received from sensors, and the usage of advanced artificial intelligence-based algorithms on this information to produce useful knowledge, are described together with the derived social benefits. Originality/value – The work presents an innovative, extensible and scalable system, proven to be useful in healthcare environments. KW - Healthcare KW - Cloud computing KW - Ontologies Y1 - 2018 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-srh/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1052 N1 - Volltext aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar. Full text due to copyright no available. VL - 14 IS - 4 SP - 334 EP - 349 PB - Emerald CY - Bingley ER -