IoT-enabled Smart Healthcare Systems, Services and Applications

5An Overview of Architecture and Applications of IoT‐Based Health Care Systems

M. Saravanan¹, J. Ajayan², R. Maheswar³, and E. Parthasarathy⁴

¹ Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India

² Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SR University, Warangal, Telangana, India

³ School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering (SEEE), VIT Bhopal University, Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India

⁴ Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India

5.1 Introduction

In our modern world, technology has been improving substantially; it affects most, if not all, of our society, and the healthcare system is not an exception. Healthcare systems in certain countries have improved substantially to provide better treatment for their people; these countries provide better treatment because of monitoring their patients' conditions consistently, helping them to recover from their diseases.

For example, people who suffer from diabetes need a doctor's advice regularly; diabetes causes abnormal function of the pancreas. This leads to vital organ damage. By using the applications of IoT, the sensors embedded with the system that continuously sense and monitor the patients' health and send the recorded data to their doctors can reduce the risk of death.

IoT in healthcare services has received growing attention due to the rapid technological advancement ...