IoT based Healthcare

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Abstract
Modern healthcare is being redesigned technologically, economically and architecturally
by revolution ofthe Internet Of Things (IoT). Internet Of Things (IoT) has started to gain and
attract a lot of attention and popularity in recent years due to its alleviation of key development
in healthcare systems. The purpose of this research report is to present the up-to-state artwork
relating to IoT, challenges, technologies, trends, and future recommendation of theInternet Of
Things in healthcare systems. Some of the technologies that are applied toIoT and healthcare
systems include; embedded technologies, wireless communication, big data analytics, and
artificial intelligence among others. IoT has been recommended by many health practitioners as
an effective way to engage with patients due to its common adoption. But any system doesn’t run
without obstacles. IoT has some drawbacks and weaknesses that cause challenges to health
facilitates. However, there are avenues like sustainable development which bases IoT to have
some future research on IoT healthcare bases issues.

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Introduction
Healthcare is a crucial and essential structure in people’s lives. Modern healthcare is
required in the current era due to the aging growth of people and high increase in chronic
diseases. The solution that is very much appropriate to this demand of health resources in the
hospital is the integration of IoT to the hospital systems. IoT healthcare is an interconnected
infrastructure of both software & hardware applications and more so healthcare devices that
receive and send data from IT-specific systems in the healthcares& hospitals. Evolution of IoT
things has a foundational mission of optimizing better and sufficient healthcare in an easier and a
faster way and much convenient to the environment (Baker, Xiang, Atkinson, 2017). This
interconnection connects healthcare providers and patients through technology and software
developed specifically for the purpose. This technology is helping the health industry to
revolutionize and create better relationships from patients to physicians to the entire workforce
and all having a similar goal of engaging and cultivating the whole health process. IoT
integration from other different industries have proven the plausible characteristic of IoT based
healthcare and it has verified that remote monitoring of things, data sampling & collection, and
data transfer is possible between patients and healthcare facilities. Several related research works
have been done previously on specific areas and technologies related to this survey were also
included in the study (Baker, Xiang, Atkinson, 2017).This research report tries to uniquely
identify all the key crucial components of healthcare and the Internet Of Things. This report
further looks into annotated bibliographies of various sources which had tried to analyze and
tackle Internet Of Things and healthcare industry.
Literature Review
The following section discusses technologies in IoT based healthcare systems. This
involves the in-depth definition of Internet Of Things which mostly is mistaken by technology
definition. Then it also involves the concepts like the trends, challenges involved in the field, and
annotated bibliographies. Smart devices have the capability of interacting and integrating with
other smart things. A fitting example is that a smart watch simply integrates with your phone
which simply connects with the health provider ́s systems such that in case of an emergency and
someone is wearing the smartwatch, it will easily share the data with your spouse ́s phone and
also the hospitals` system. According to Miorandi, Sicari, Pellegrini, &Chlamtac (2012), a smart

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device can be described as anything which poses the ability to communicate that is able to send
and receive messages, perform simple computations and it is identifiable uniquely.
Technologies behind IoT Healthcare
Wireless networks are among the technology that powers the IoT systems and some of
the networks include; Bluetooth, wireless sensor networks, Wi-Fi, low range WANs, PANs, low
power WANs and Near Field Communication among others (Gubbi, Buyya, Marusic, &
Palaniswami, 2013).
Sensing is another type of technology that has pushed IoT systems in healthcare to
greater levels. Devices with sensing capabilities have progressed in a very inferential way. These
devices are cheap and easy to install hence they do not undermine the involved parties
economically. But whatsoever, it has been noted that sensing technology is not an essential factor
in powering IoT (Miorandi et al., 2012).
Attack Reason for
Vulnerability
Violation of security Measures taken
Hidden channel attacks Sharing of the hardware
components and the VM
servers
Confidentiality Flushing the cache
memory,
Limiting the rate of
switching the cache,
Hard Isolation,
Noisy access time of
data
Virtual machine
migration attacks
Bugs from VM
migration software,
Clear copying of
memory pages,
Performance of
unauthenticated
migration
Availability,
Confidentiality,
Integrity
Server Authentication,
Encrypting the
migrating pages
Theft of service attacks Sampling of VM
resources periodically
Non-repudiation,
Availability
Fine-grain sampling
using high precision
clocks,