Healthcare and tourism are among the fastest growing business domains in the world. These are biggest service industries that affect whole world population and give jobs to millions of people. Recently we witness major changes in both industries, as more services are transferred to small providers, including individual entrepreneurs and SMEs. This process is driven by huge growth in demand, which cannot be fulfilled by applying traditional solutions. The new generation of digital services reshapes landscape of both industries. Some players see it as a threat, as digital services replace their traditional business models. But fighting against progress is useless, especially when you cannot fulfill growing by old means. Internet of Things (IoT) is an integral part of the Future Internet ecosystem that will have major impact on development of healthcare and e-Tourism services. IoT provides an infrastructure to uniquely identify and link physical objects to their virtual representations in Internet. As a result any physical object can have virtual reflection in the service space. This gives an opportunity to replace actions on physical objects by operations on their virtual reflections, which can be done much faster, cheaper and more comfortable for people. This provides a huge space for developing and applying new business models. In this paper we summarize research and development results of IoT studies and discuss ideas on how to apply them to business.
Numerous advances in the area of ubiquitous computing resulted in appearance of such paradigms as Smart Spaces, where a number of devices can use a shared view of resources and services. Nowadays we observing emerge of the smart space technologies, which are truly mobile and allowing equally efficient design of applications for the broad range of devices. An example of such smart spaces platform is Smart-M3, which has been developed by Nokia in cooperation with the SOFIA program partners. The paper presents an approach for applying Smart-M3 smart space solution for multimedia service networks. This enables a convenient and seamless access to the distributed multimedia content from the mobile devices, PCs and other types of user devices. A scenario of multimedia content sharing between various companies and their customers is presented as one of the possible applications of the proposed solution and the corresponding demo implementation is developed.
Recent progress in technologies of the Internet of Things (IoT) enables advanced scenarios for mobile healthcare (m-Health). In this paper, we consider the service intelligence in m-Health (so called smart services). On the one hand, such a service utilizes the telemedicine approach when existing healthcare services (located in hospital) are delivered to remote patients (out of hospital). On the other hand, construction and delivery of a smart service benefit from additional intelligence attributes, beyond a fixed set of healthcare services of a given medical information system. For this promising class of m-Health services, we introduce reference scenarios of personalized assistance for a mobile patient with focus on emergency cases. Our development employs the smart spaces paradigm: patients, medical personnel, healthcare services, and other participants operate within a common networked computing environment and interact by sharing information and its semantics. We contribute design solutions to construct services as smart m-Health spaces.