A Sustainable Future in Digital Health: Leveraging Environmentally Friendly Architectural Tactics for Sustainable Data Processing
Year: 2025
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: The rapid growth of big data in healthcare necessitates optimising data processing to reduce its environmental impact. This paper proposes a pilot architectural framework to evaluate the sustainability of a Big Healthcare Data (BHD) system using Microservices Architecture (MSA). The goal is to enhance MSA's architectural tactics by incorporating environmentally friendly metrics into healthcare systems. This is achieved by adopting energy and carbon efficiency models, alongside exploring innovative architectural strategies. The framework, based on recent research, manipulates cloud-native system architecture by using a controller to adjust microservice deployment through real-time monitoring and modelling. This approach demonstrates how sustainability-driven metrics can be applied at different abstraction levels to estimate environmental impact from multiple perspectives.
DOI: 10.3233/shti250441
Authors: Tia Haddad, Pushpa Kumarapeli, Simon de Lusignan, Sarah Barman, Souheil Khaddaj
Institutions: Kingston University London, University of Oxford
Language: English
Topic: Green IT and Sustainability
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4410447973