Internet of things in healthcare: Technologies, applications, opportunities and challenges

• Main Authors: Kumar, Arun, De, Akash, Gill, Rana
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Body temperature; Electronic health records; Fall detection; Health care; Health services; Hypertension; Internet of Things; Patients; Physicians
• ISSN: 0094-243X; 1551-7616
• DOI: 10.1063/5.0123090

Healthcare is experiencing the fastest technological changes to revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of the body. Offering ubiquitous connectivity of bountiful real-time information sharing alongside functional benefits that accompany them, the Web of Things has turned into a charming power in the healthcare industry. The Internet of Things is like a digital fabric that is woven into the lives of all of us in one way or another. It’s an arrangement of interrelated computing appliances, programmatic and mechanical machinery, creatures, or individuals that collect and share information about how they’re utilized and about the climate around them. Until the only way to communicate with doctors was through visits and text messages. Hospitals and doctors could not keep track of the patient’s condition and offer advice regularly. By the virtue of connecting any individual with the technology-driven virtual platform from an arbitrary position, it’s an outstanding idea for medication, with medical care IoT expanding mutually with distant patients examining and electronic health records to transform the very approach of care. This paper discusses the available solutions to overcome prime causes behind maternal ailment and demise comprise hypertension and labor dystocia, along with the promise to develop healthcare solutions and support the accelerated elderly population both in their own houses and in retirement homes. This paper presents the best in class research of related areas, evaluating their strengths, weaknesses, and sustainability. It also discusses the affiliation of non-invasive biomedical sensors that collect bio-physiological signals like maternal respiration rate, fetal movement, body temperature, ECG, fall detection, blood pressure, and photoplethysmogram (PPG) by monitoring and registering patients vital information as well as to provide mechanisms to trigger alarms in emergencies along with health-improving suggestions.