Internet of things based context awareness architectural framework for HMIS

Healthcare is very important factor in every body´s life and Information technology. It is playing an important role in providing better health with number of advancements. Internet of things (IoT) is an emerging technology. Due to its popularity in technology and internet world, IoT is rising in every field of life and so in health sector. Health is something in which its focus is more concentrated due to its hypnotic features. In our previous work we have defined and provided IoT based hospital management information system (HMIS). As IoT is aimed to connect everything to Internet, there are billions of sensors which are attached to things to access data and connect these things to internet. So the data provided by these sensors is growing very fast. We need to handle this big data on personals gadgets as well on central databases. To deal with this problem, in this paper we have presented IoT based architectural framework with context awareness for hospital management systems. We have introduced context awareness as a middleware on IoT´s architecture above network layer to overcome the problem of data management. Patient´s data would be placed on a cloud and only the required information would be available on their personal gadgets like smart phones and laptops etc.