AN EXTENSIVE ANALYSIS OF IOT APPLICATIONS IN MEDICAL AND HEALTHCARE

[ 30 Jun 2020 | vol. 13 | no. 2 | pp. 11-18 ]

About Authors:

N.Thirupathi Rao1, S. Naga Mallik Raj1 and Debnath Bhattacharyya2
-1Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Vignan's Institute of Information Technology (A), Duvvada, Visakhapatnam, AP
-2Department of Computer Science and Engineering, K.L. University, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Vaddeswaram, Guntur, AP, India

Abstract:

As days are passing, the number of diseases spreading across the people is getting increased in number and the growth of technology also increasing in parallel across the world. It is becoming a problem to reach the advanced medical facilities or the medical treatment to the people staying in interior places or rural places. By the utilization of these recent technology developments, the doctors can suggest or can guide the patients to follow the precautionary or the medical treatment processes from remote places to the interior places. The doctors can suggest the treatment to the patients located anywhere in the world only by using their internet-based applications and devices. The devices placed at various locations will collect the data from time to time and based on that data collected, the data will be analyzed, and the doctors can suggest the appropriate treatment on time to time basis. This facility was occurred and provided by the newly developed and developing technologies like the Internet of Things. With the development of this technology, the utilization of wireless devices and sensor devices at various locations had increased a lot, and it also helped the researchers to collect the data from various locations where a human being cannot go and collect the data. As a result, the doctors or the researchers can suggest the right treatment or some accurate solutions to the problems that might be arising at various locations around the world. The devices used herein these models are the sensors which collect the data and can be processed and used later on. The utilization of such devices in medical applications had increased a lot. In the current article, an attempt had made to present some of the medical applications where these Internet of Things based devices are being used and how they can help to identify the disease symptoms and at the same time the appropriate suggestion of providing a solution to such diseases or viruses.

Keywords:

Internet of Things, Medical Applications, Healthcare, Medicine, Apple, Google, Apple Watch, Insulin, Insulin Pen, Asthma, Glucose, Inhalers

 

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