On Defining and Deploying Health Services in Fog-Cloud Architectures

Infrastructures based on fog computing are gaining popularity as an alternative to provide low-latency communication on executing distributed services. With cloud resources, it is possible to assemble an architectub re with resources close to data providers and those with more processing capacity, achieved through internet links. In this context, this book chapter presents the first insight regarding fog-cloud architecture for the healthcare area. In particular, we address vital sign monitoring in sensor devices and provide intelligent health services that reside both in the fog and the cloud to benefit the end-users and the public government. The preliminary results show the advantages of combining fog and cloud and critical applications and highlight some points of attention to address system scalability and quality of service.