Effective Ways to Use Internet of Things in the Field of Medical and Smart Health Care
Postgraduate
ABSTRACT
The
recent advancements in technology and the availability of the Internet make it
possible to connect various devices that can communicate with each other and
share data. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a new concept that allows users to
connect various sensors and smart devices to collect real-time data from the
environment. However, it has been observed that a comprehensive platform is
still missing in the e-Health and mHealth architectures to use smartphone
sensors to sense and transmit important data related to a patient’s health. In
this paper, our contribution is twofold. Firstly, we critically evaluate the
existing literature, which discusses the effective ways to deploy IoT in the
field of medical and smart health care. Secondly, we propose a new semantic
model for patients’ e-Health. The proposed model named as ‘k-Healthcare’ makes
use of 4 layers; the sensor layer, the network layer, the Internet layer and
the services layer. All layers cooperate with each other effectively and
efficiently to provide a platform for accessing patients’ health data using
smart phones.