A novel fog-computing-assisted architecture of E-healthcare system for pregnant women

Recently, there is a tremendous rise and adoption of smart wearable devices in smart healthcare applications. Moreover, the advancement in sensors and communication technology empowers to detect and analyse physiological data of an individual from the wearable device. At present, the smart wearable device based on internet of things is assisting the pregnancy woman to continuously monitor their health status for avoiding the severity. The physiological data analysis of wearable device is processed with the assistance of fog computing due to limited computational and energy capability in the wearable device. Additionally, fog computing overcomes the excess latency that is created by cloud computing during physiological data analysis. In this article, a smart health monitoring IoT and fog-assisted framework are proposed for obtaining and processing the temperature, blood pressure, ECG, and pulse oximeter parameters of the pregnant woman. Based on real time series data, the rule-based algorithm logged in the wearable device with fog computing to analyse the critical health conditions of pregnant women. The proposed wearable device is validated and tested on 80 pregnant women in real time, and wearable device is delivering the 98.75% accuracy in providing health recommendations.