A reference architecture for home systems health care from the perspective of Systems-of-systems
Abstract
Smart Home Health Care Systems (Health- Supportive Home or MSM) can provide health services in the homes of patients diagnosed with one or multiple chronic diseases, aiming mainly at improvement of the quality of life and autonomy, as well as the reduction of of the costs of public health systems. However, MSM systems challenges in the design of its architecture and be treated in terms of their high quality and economic viability. Beyond Moreover, MSM systems are in most cases constituted by several other systems that are complex, independent, distributed and heterogeneous, such as example, medical devices, electronic health systems (e-Health), health information, among others. In this way, they should not be treated as monolithic systems (as they currently are), but rather as Systems-Systems (Systems-of-Systems or SoS). In this scenario, the main objective of this thesis was to contribute to the architectural design of HSH-SoS 1; for this, it was established the HomecARe, a reference architecture that supports systematic reuse technical knowledge and domain, facilitating the design and development of HSH-SoS. To establish the HomecARe, a systematic process was adopted that supports the engineering of reference architectures. Aiming to analyze the viability and relevance of HomecARe, an extensive case study was conducted in which Ho- mecARe was used to design DiaManT @ Home, an HSH-SoS to support patients with diabetes mellitus for self-management of their disease. Results obtained demonstrated the relevance and feasibility of the HomecARe Reusable, interoperable, reliable, secure and adaptive MSM-SoS, including an unprecedented contribution to the area of electronic health, and bringing in the areas of reference architecture and SoS.
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