Type-2 fuzzy ontology-based semantic knowledge for indoor air quality assessment

Smart monitoring solution for dengue infection control: A digital twin-inspired approach

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE

In the realm of smart healthcare, precise monitoring and prediction services are crucial for mitigating the impact of infectious diseases. This study introduces an innovative digital twin technology-inspired monitoring architecture that employs a similarity-based hybrid modeling scheme to significantly enhance accuracy in the smart healthcare domain. The research also delves into the potential of IoT technology in delivering advanced technological healthcare solutions, with a specific focus on the rapid expansion of dengue fever.

METHODS

The proposed digital twin-inspired healthcare system is designed to proactively combat the spread of dengue virus by enabling ubiquitous monitoring and forecasting of individuals' susceptibility to dengue infection. The system utilizes digital twin technology to observe the status of healthcare and generate likely predictions about the vulnerability to the virus by employing k-means Clustering and Artificial Neural Networks.

RESULTS

The proposed system has been validated and its effectiveness has been demonstrated through experimental evaluation using carefully defined methods. The results of the experimental assessment confirm that the system performs optimally in terms of Temporal Delay (14.15 s), Classification Accuracy (92.86%), Sensitivity (92.43%), Specificity (91.52%), F-measure (90.86%), and Prediction Effectiveness. Moreover, by integrating a hybrid model that corrects errors in physics-based predictions employing a model for error correction driven by data, this approach has demonstrated a noteworthy 48% reduction in prediction errors, particularly in health monitoring scenarios.

CONCLUSIONS

The digital twin-inspired healthcare system proposed in this study can assist healthcare providers in assessing the health vulnerability of the dengue virus, thereby reducing the likelihood of long-term or catastrophic health consequences. The integration of a hybrid modeling approach and the utilization of IoT technology has shown promising results in enhancing the accuracy and effectiveness of smart health monitoring and prediction services.

Modeling and implementation of a low-cost IoT-smart weather monitoring station and air quality assessment based on fuzzy inference model and MQTT protocol

The automatic weather system serves to inform farmers, tourists, planners, and others with precise information to help them take the appropriate action. Today, with the advancement of smart technologies, the system has evolved into many sensing methods to gather real-time climate data. This article investigates the modeling and implementation of a low-cost weather station device that also functions to measure air quality. The proposed system based on the Internet of Things (IoT) allows access to real-time climate data for a given area. This system monitors environmental conditions such as ambient temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, altitude, and levels of harmful atmospheric gases like CO2 and NO2. This real-time telemetry device uses MQ-135, DHT-11 and BMP280 sensors to gather data. The ESP32 board processes the obtained data from all sensors. Additionally, we present a model for a fuzzy inference system (FIS) that performs parameter categorization using a reasoning procedure and incorporates the results into an air quality index (AQI) that describes the levels of pollution for Al Hoceima city. The FIS takes CO2 and NO2 values as input and returns the AQI. The AQI for Al Hoceima city is categorized into six levels: Excellent, Good, Regular, Bad, Dangerous, and Very Dangerous. Furthermore, the suggested system's block hardware employs the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol to broadcast collected data to a mobile and web application via the Internet. The suggested IoT-embedded device was tested in real life, and the results were promising.

Using type-2 fuzzy ontology to improve semantic interoperability for healthcare and diagnosis of depression

Ontology enhances semantic interoperability through integrating health data from heterogeneous sources and sharing information in a meaningful way. In the field of smart health services, semantic interoperability means the exchange and interpretation of data without ambiguity and uncertainty. However, existing classical ontologies are not able to represent vague and uncertain knowledge, especially in contexts of mental health disorders which are associated with varying degrees of uncertainty and inaccuracy of diagnosis, and in this case, the treatment is a complex and common mental process necessitating to share information accurately and unambiguously. Type-2 fuzzy set theory can offer a fruitful solution in order to control uncertainty or express ambiguous concepts in a dynamic and complex environment such as healthcare systems. Herein, a semantic framework for healthcare, and also monitoring mental health disorders using type-2 fuzzy set theory based on the Internet of Thing (IoT) is suggested, in which all depression-related concepts are semantically annotated to share detailed information with the treatment staff. This framework not only paved the way to increasing the accuracy of medical diagnosis and decision-making but also provides the possibility of inference and semantic reasoning using the languages of SPARQL query and DL query.