Chapter 6: IoT services in healthcare industry with fog/edge and cloud computing

Dinesh Kumara; Ashish Kumar Mauryaa; Gaurav Baranwalb    a Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, Indiab Department of Computer Science, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract

A continuous growth in human population has made availability of healthcare services a challenge. In recent past, various online healthcare applications have been proposed, but they were not reachable to common people because of unavailability of suitable and cheap handheld devices. A few years back, when Internet of Things (IoT) was introduced with clear architecture ...

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