An overview of Internet of Things (IoT) Implementation in Saskatchewan Healthcare Systems

for enhanced electronic Health (eHealth) Initiative and improved Saskatchewan Health
Authority (SHA) Case study: Newly formed or amalgamated Saskatchewan Health Authority
(SHA)

Proposed to Prof. Maher Elshakankiri as a partial fulfillment of CS890DH

project

Group (2)

Adeniyi Onasanya
Adepeju Maradesa
Iruoma Nwabuzor
Oladunni Oladimeji
Sari Lakkis

Faculty of Computer Science

University of Regina 2017

Abstract
Natural disasters can cause devastating impact when they happen, but fortunately, most of these disasters give
a number of precautions before it reach the peak level, so if we manage to detect these precautions we could
limit the impact or eliminate it.

Today due to the technological advancements we have different types of devices that are able to sense and
analyze different precautions that occur before natural disasters, the most applicable devices that can be used
for this type of purposes are the wireless sensor networks, especially UWSN (Underwater WSN) and UAV-
WSN (Unmanned Aerial WSN).

Introduction
In the past few years researches started to pay attention for using WSNs to help them detecting or gathering
information about a potential disaster or about damaged areas, due to the increase in the number of the
disasters around the world [1]. Numerous disasters can be managed and narrowed using different kinds of
sensing techniques that gathers valuable data continuously and send it wirelessly to a database or a cloud
service in order to be analyzed for taking rational fast decisions.

The most important things that must be taken into consideration when designing such as system, is the
scalability and ability to gather valuable information with a low cost implementation plan, and these are the
advantages of WSNs over regular implementations such as ad-hoc networks.

Proposed Ideas
Making a review or a survey of potential solutions to help in limiting the possible impacts of natural disasters
by using different types of WSNs such as USWN, and UAV-WSNetc., trying to detect these disasters in the
early stages such as:
Forest fire detection: By sensing rapid changes in thermal and temperature.
Dangerous gas leakage: installing sensors in gas leakage prone areas to get early alerts of gas levels.
Flood and Drought: sensing water levels on rivers and lakes in order to determine floods or
droughts.
Earthquakes and Tsunami: sensing early small shocks that happens before the earthquake to get
info about a potential disaster.
Radiation monitoring: mount sensors in different areas of sensing dangerous radiations.
Volcano Eruptions: detecting "electromagnetic energy that is absorbed, reflected, radiated or
scattered from the surface of a volcano".
Endangered animals monitoring: distributing monitoring sensors in the areas where these animals
gather or installing sensors directly to the body of these animals in order to control "hunting" or
dangerous situations.
Snow Avalanches: detect small movement of snow blocks before the big avalanche occurs.

As for our project we can pick the most important disasters from these and try to propose ideas of how
to implement and build systems for early detections and preventions for them, using different
architectures of WSNs.
Conclusion
By the end of the project, different implementation suggestions must be proposed that will benefit human
beings in understanding the natural disasters more and help to eliminate or at least limit their impact.

References
[1] Imane Benkhelifa, Nadia Nouali-Taboudjemat, Samira Moussaoui. Disaster Management Projects using Wireless Sensor
Networks: An Overview, 2014 28th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops
IEEE.