Motivating Example 2: Health Care System

One of the major data streams applications is health monitoring systems, where the patients` vital measurements such as heart rate, temperature, etc. are continuously monitored, and a CQ to report when these values go beyond the normal values is being continuously executed. Imagine the case for some diseases when a patient needs to be monitored to follow up progress, or identify anomalies. This information is a multimedia stream that can be fed to a multimedia data stream management system with the appropriate queries.