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Table 4 Prototype infrastructure components

From: Analyzing the availability and performance of an e-health system integrated with edge, fog and cloud infrastructures

Device

Type

Specification

Edge device

Heart rate sensor

Operate from 3 V to 5 V

Edge device

Arduino UNO

Clock speed 16 MHz, SRAM 2 KB, Flash Memory 32 KB

Fog device

Raspberry Pi 3

Quad Core 1.2GHz CPU, 1GB RAM and 802.11n wireless

Fog device

Netbook

Intel Atom processor 1.6GHz, 2GB RAM and 802.11b/g/n wireless

Cloud

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Four different geographic locations: (a) Sao Paulo/Brazil, (b) California/USA, (c) London/England, and (d) Tokyo/Japan.