A flexible energy management approach for smart healthcare on the internet of patients (IoP)

J Supercomput. 2022;78(7):10211-10249. doi: 10.1007/s11227-021-04240-2. Epub 2022 Jan 21.

Abstract

Considering the importance of biosensors on the Internet of the patient body that collect vital signs and transmit them to the coordinator, energy consumption and network lifetime are essential challenges in these networks. This paper, it has been tried to present a method based on adapting sampling rate through patient's risk and discovered pattern by employing an intelligence method based on adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system, interpolation function, and a biosensor patron. It causes restricting sensed and transmitted data to the coordinator. In the proposed schema, three methods containing Grid partitioning, Subtractive Clustering and fuzzy c-means have been used in two modes, including hybrid and error backpropagation, to predict the individual's behavioral pattern and determine the patient's risk, attentively. The simulation results in MATLAB R2018b show that the proposed method reduces the network communications. It has improved energy consumption by up to three times and also reduced traffic by more than 80% compared to similar methods.

Keywords: ANFIS; Daily activity pattern; Energy saving; Internet of patient; Network communications; Risk of patient.