Avaliação de Desempenho de uma Arquitetura de Sistema de Monitoramento de Pacientes em Hospitais Inteligentes com Fontes de Dados Interna e Externa
Abstract
The variety of sensors for health monitoring helps in decision making by medical professionals. For certain clinical situations, it is interesting to monitor the patient’s health after discharge. Wearable health monitoring devices (such as smartwatches) can be used to keep sending data to the hospital. However, for monitoring a large number of patients (external and internal), a resilient and high-performance computing infrastructure is required. Such characteristics require high monetary cost equipment. To help plan such an infrastructure, this paper presents an SPN (Stochastic Petri Network) model for evaluating the performance of a multi-tier hospital system architecture (edge-fog-cloud). The model allows evaluating the mean response time (MRT), level of resource utilization (U) and probability of data loss (DP). A very specific characteristic is to consider two data sources (internal and external). As a case study, the impact of varying the number of containers (from 5 to 100) for simultaneous processing in the cloud was analyzed. With capacity 50, 75 and 100 simultaneous containers, the result was similar, with MRT below 25 seconds. For capacity 5 and 25 containers, MRT has reached 150 seconds.
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