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Go to Editorial ManagerWater scarcity, drought, and population growth accompanying climate change are dangerous factors with serious consequences related to potable water file unless appropriate action is taken urgently to deal with these issues, especially with large populations in the major cities as well as the suburban areas. This work presents an enhanced wide area network for efficient management of the freshwater in the major cities. Hence, it adopts Mosul city as a typical case that contains about 100 residential districts that require 100 sites of water monitoring in the different locations in the city where each site owns three different types of water sensors (water flow, water level, and pressure) in addition to the video surveillance application. The water station sites send the data to the control and monitoring center of the water. The collected data is processed and analyzed by public cloud or private cloud for control and monitoring purposes. The suggested communication network addresses the requirements of the water section applications in terms of monitoring in real-time. This work addresses the WiMAX system as a communication network infrastructure to handle the advantages of resilience, low-cost maintenance, and expansion The suggested network offered excellent behavior in terms of latency (maximum latency is less than 57 msec) and data traffic of the adopted applications.
Health Information Technology (HIT) provides many opportunities for transforming and improving health care systems. HIT enhances the quality of health care delivery, reduces medical errors, increases patient safety, facilitates care coordination, monitors the updated data over time, improves clinical outcomes, and strengthens the interaction between patients and health care providers. Living in modern large cities has a significant negative impact on people's health, for instance, the increased risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes. According to the rising morbidity in the last decade, the number of patients with diabetes worldwide will exceed 642 million in 2040, meaning that one in every ten adults will be affected. All the previous research on diabetes mellitus indicates that early diagnoses can reduce death rates and overcome many problems. In this regard, machine learning (ML) techniques show promising results in using medical data to predict diabetes at an early stage to save people's lives. In this paper, we propose an intelligent health care system based on ML methods as a real-time monitoring system to detect diabetes mellitus and examine other health issues such as food and drug allergies of patients. The proposed system uses five machine learning methods: K-Nearest Neighbors, Naïve Bayes, Logistic Regression, Random Forest, and Support Vector Machine (SVM). The system selects the best classification method with high accuracy to optimize the diagnosis of patients with diabetes. The experimental results show that in the proposed system, the SVM classifier has the highest accuracy of 83%.
This work concerns creating a monitoring system for a smart hospital using Raspberry Pi to measure vital signs. The readings are continually sent to central monitoring units outside the room instead of being beside the patients, to ensure less contacting between the medical staff and patients, also the cloud is used for those who leave the hospital, as the design can track on their medical cases. Data presentation and analysis were accomplished by the LabVIEW program. A Graphical User Interface (GUI) has been created by the Virtual-Instrument (VI) of this program that offer real-time access to monitor patients’ measurements. If unhealthy states are detected, the design triggers alerts and sends SMS message to the doctor. Furthermore, the clinicians can scan a QR code (which is assigned to each patient individually) to access its real-time measurements. The system also utilizes Electrocardiography (ECG) to detect abnormalities and identify specific heart diseases based on its extracted parameters to encourage patients to seek timely medical attention, while aiding doctors in making well-informed decisions. To evaluate the system’s performance, it is tested in the hospital on many patients of different ages and diseases as well. According to the results, the accuracy measurement of SpO2 was about 98.39%, 97.7% for (heart rate) and 98.7% for body temperature. This shows that the system can offer many patients receiving health services from various facilities, and it ensures efficient data management, access control, real-time monitoring, and secure patient information aligning with healthcare standards.