Chapter 2: Geolocation-aware IoT and cloud-fog-based solutions for healthcare
Jaydeep Das Advanced Technology Development Center, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
Abstract
With increasing health awareness, a large volume of healthcare data is being generated through different types of healthcare devices using new technologies. IoT devices, such as smart watches, are used to collect health data from the patient and send the data to the cloud-fog environment for the diagnosis of diseases. In emergency cases, analysis of some health data can be done in the fog devices; otherwise, the health data are forwarded to the cloud servers. After the diagnosis, doctors can prescribe medicines or take immediate actions ...
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