Design and Implementation of a Remote Care Application Based on Microservice Architecture

TL;DR

This paper presents a case study of a remote care application built with microservice architecture, demonstrating improved scalability, integration, and deployment efficiency for remote caregiving systems.

Contribution

It provides practical insights into designing and implementing a remote care system using MSA, highlighting benefits like better scalability and faster deployment.

Findings

Enhanced scalability and extensibility of the system

More efficient feature integration and deployment

Successful application of domain-driven design principles

Abstract

Microservice Architecture (MSA) is an architectural style for service-based software systems. MSA puts a strong emphasis on high cohesion and loose coupling of the services that provide systems' functionalities. As a result of this, MSA-based software architectures exhibit increased scalability and extensibility, and facilitate the application of continuous integration techniques. This paper presents a case study of an MSA-based Remote Care Application (RCA) that allows caregivers to remotely access smart home devices. The goal of the RCA is to assist persons being cared in Activities of Daily Living. Employing MSA for the realization of the RCA yielded several lessons learned, e.g., (i) direct transferability of domain models based on Domain-driven Design; (ii) more efficient integration of features; (iii) speedup of feature delivery due to MSA facilitating automated deployment.