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5 Unleashing the potential of the Internet of Things

3.1.5 Internet of things (IoT) [ITU-T Y.2060]: A global infrastructure for the information society,
enabling advanced services by interconnecting (physical and virtual) things based on existing and
evolving interoperable information and communication technologies.

NOTE 1 – Through the exploitation of identification, data capture, processing and communication capabilities,
the IoT makes full use of things to offer services to all kinds of applications, whilst ensuring that security and
privacy requirements are fulfilled.
NOTE 2 – From a broader perspective, the IoT can be perceived as a vision with technological and societal
implications.

3.2 Terms defined in this Recommendation
None.

4 Abbreviations and acronyms

This Recommendation uses the following abbreviations and acronyms:
EHM E-Health Monitoring
EHMH E-Health Monitoring Healthcare

EHMR E-Health Monitoring Rehabilitation

EHMT E-Health Monitoring Treatment
ICT Information and Communication Technology
IoT Internet of Things

QoS Quality of Service
SSAS Service Support and Application Support

5 Conventions

In this Recommendation:
The keywords "is required to" indicate a requirement that must be strictly followed and from which
no deviation is permitted if conformance to this document is to be claimed.
The keywords "is recommended" indicate a requirement that is recommended, but which is not
absolutely required. Thus this requirement need not be present to claim conformance.

The keywords "can optionally" and "may" indicate an optional requirement that is permissible,
without implying any sense of being recommended. These terms are not intended to imply that the
vendor's implementation must provide the option and the feature can be optionally enabled by the
network operator or service provider. Rather, it means the vendor may optionally provide the feature
and still claim conformance with the specification.

6 Introduction
E-health monitoring (EHM) services include three types of services, i.e., EHM treatment (EHMT),
EHM rehabilitation (EHMR) and EHM healthcare (EHMH), covering the person in healthy state,
sub-healthy state and illness state respectively [ITU-T Y.2065]. It is expected that moving from one
of these three types of EHM service to another is transparent from the customer’s point of view, i.e.,
the customer can benefit from the EHM service required according to their change in state of health
while minimizing the impact on the customer from the information and communication technology
(ICT) point of view.

662 Rec. ITU-T Y.4408/Y.2075 (09/2015)