Mobile Web services offer the great potential of a multitude of services and opportunities; marking a
shift in how everyday businesses interact and perform. Real-time access to context information would facilitate
time-critical applications [5], such as healthcare and location-based services. Emergency disaster
situations form another rich domain in which mobile Web services may play a critical role. More importantly,
mobile service provisioning would expand on mobile device capabilities, such as cameras or GPS
units. The adoption of mobile Web services provisioning in remote health monitoring is motivated by the
following features that characterize service provisioning from mobile devices.