Comprehensive Report: IoT Applications and Technologies in Healthcare

This report explores the application of the Internet of Things (IoT) in the healthcare industry, highlighting its innovative approaches to enhancing patient care services. It discusses the megatrend of IoT in the market, focusing on the implementation of innovative technologies such as smartwatches and bands. The report analyzes ten journal articles to provide a comprehensive overview of IoT's role in healthcare, including automation, instrumentation, logistics, and technological devices for home healthcare services. It emphasizes the concept of self-care facilitated by IoT devices, enabling emergency solutions for health security, logistics, retail, and industrial control, ultimately improving the maintenance and delivery of healthcare services to a large number of individuals.

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Abstract
This report has been based on the application of the Internet of Things in Healthcare
industry. Internet of things have been providing various innovative approaches to the healthcare
industry for enhancing care services to the patients. The IoT has been a megatrend in the market
with the implementation of innovative technologies. This report has been prepared using 10
journals articles. A brief analysis has been provided in the report. The use of the IoT in the
healthcare industry has been explained in the report. Various smart objects have been discovered
in the field of health care that have been hoeing in enhancing quality of healthcare services. The
use if the smart watches and bands are one of the examples of IoT in healthcare industry.
Various automation have been implemented in the healthcare industry for enhancing
quality of healthcare services in the market. IoT applications have been providing a wide range
of instrumentation logistics and technological devices for providing healthcare services at home.
IoT devices have been focusing over the concept of self-care of patients at home. The IoT
devices have been helpful in enhancing the self-care concept among various patients and
individuals. Now, IoT have helped in providing emergency solutions to various health security,
logistics, retail and industrial control. The use of the IoT devices have been helping in providing
a keen approach to the maintenance of healthcare services in the market. The use of IoT has been
helping in providing care services to large number of individuals by enhancing self-care
techniques and devices.

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Islam, S. R., Kwak, D., Kabir, M. H., Hossain, M., & Kwak, K. S. (2015). The internet of
things for health care: a comprehensive survey. IEEE Access, 3, 678-708.
This article addresses about importance of internet of things in the healthcare industry.
This paper has classified IoT based healthcare network into three trends and briefing about them.
Various core technologies of IoT that can reshape healthcare solutions in the market. The
research and development n healthcare has been based on wireless sensor network.
Pinto, S., Cabral, J., & Gomes, T. (2017, March). We-care: An IoT-based health care
system for elderly people. In Industrial Technology (ICIT), 2017 IEEE International
Conference on(pp. 1378-1383). IEEE.
This article has been based on the We-care health care systems based on the
implementation of IoT in healthcare. The system architecture of the We-care system has been
discussed in the article. Various hardware devices under the We-care systems have been
mentioned and discussed in the article.
Kale, S. S., & Bhagwat, D. S. (2016). Highly Secured IoT Based Health Care System for
Elderly People using Body Sensor Network. International Journal of Innovative Research in
Science Engineering and Technology, 5(10).
This article discusses about security in the IoT healthcare systems. The use of the
wireless sensor networks have been discussed in the article. This article has been based on the
use of IoT based health care system for elderly people using body sensor network. Various
healthcare devices for elderly people have been discussed in the article.

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Senthilkumar, R., Ponmagal, R. S., & Sujatha, K. (2016). Efficient health care monitoring
and emergency management system using IoT. International Journal of Control Theory and
Applications, 9(4), 137-145.
This journal focuses on the monitoring of emergency management system provided by
the use of IoT devices in the healthcare services. The use of the IoT system in the healthcare
services have been discussed in the journal. The control theory of the IoT system has been
focused in the journal based on its application in the field of healthcare services.
Dhar, S. K., Bhunia, S. S., & Mukherjee, N. (2014, December). Interference aware
scheduling of sensors in IoT enabled health-care monitoring system. In Emerging
Applications of Information Technology (EAIT), 2014 Fourth International Conference
of (pp. 152-157). IEEE.
This article has been based on the scheduling of sensors in IoT enabled healthcare
systems. Therefore various technologies discussed with its application in order to monitor IoT
based healthcare systems in the market. Various emerging technologies in the field of IoT in
Healthcare industry have been discussed in the journal.
Hassanalieragh, M., Page, A., Soyata, T., Sharma, G., Aktas, M., Mateos, G., ... &
Andreescu, S. (2015, June). Health monitoring and management using Internet-of-Things
(IoT) sensing with cloud-based processing: Opportunities and challenges. In 2015 IEEE
International Conference on Services Computing (pp. 285-292). IEEE.
This journal has been based on the implementation of cloud computing in the IoT
healthcare services. The importance and application of cloud computing in the IoT has been

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discussed in the journal. Various opportunities and challenges in the implementation of cloud
computing in the IoT healthcare services.
Catarinucci, L., De Donno, D., Mainetti, L., Palano, L., Patrono, L., Stefanizzi, M. L., &
Tarricone, L. (2015). An IoT-aware architecture for smart healthcare systems. IEEE
Internet of Things Journal, 2(6), 515-526.
This article has been focused on an architecture for smart healthcare systems using
internet of things. An IoT aware architecture has been proposed in the article for enhancing the
healthcare system in the market. The purpose of the article is to enhance healthcare systems by
use of new proposed IoT aware healthcare architecture.
Amendola, S., Lodato, R., Manzari, S., Occhiuzzi, C., & Marrocco, G. (2014). RFID
technology for IoT-based personal healthcare in smart spaces. IEEE Internet of things
journal, 1(2), 144-152.
The purpose of the article is to understand the concept of use of RFD technology in the
IOT based healthcare system. RFID implementation in the IoT healthcare system has been a
great live in the innovation. Advantages and mechanism of the RFD technology have been
discussed in the journal.
Chiuchisan, I., Costin, H. N., & Geman, O. (2014, October). Adopting the internet of things
technologies in health care systems. In Electrical and Power Engineering (EPE), 2014
International Conference and Exposition on (pp. 532-535). IEEE.
This journal has focused on the process of adapting internet of things in the healthcare
systems s. The use of the IoT in the healthcare systems have been discussed in the journals. The

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purpose of the journals has been educating about the advantages of the Internet of things in the
healthcare systems.
Lee, B. M., & Ouyang, J. (2014). Intelligent healthcare service by using collaborations
between IoT personal health devices. blood pressure, 10(11).
The purpose of the journal is to identify the importance of internet of things in the
healthcare services. Collaboration of smart healthcare services and personal health care services
have been discussed in the journals. The implementation of the IoT in the healthcare devices
have been discussed. This article focused in the architecture if he smart healthcare devices in the
market.

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References
Amendola, S., Lodato, R., Manzari, S., Occhiuzzi, C., & Marrocco, G. (2014). RFID technology
for IoT-based personal healthcare in smart spaces. IEEE Internet of things journal, 1(2), 144-
152.
Catarinucci, L., De Donno, D., Mainetti, L., Palano, L., Patrono, L., Stefanizzi, M. L., &
Tarricone, L. (2015). An IoT-aware architecture for smart healthcare systems. IEEE Internet of
Things Journal, 2(6), 515-526.
Chiuchisan, I., Costin, H. N., & Geman, O. (2014, October). Adopting the internet of things
technologies in health care systems. In Electrical and Power Engineering (EPE), 2014
International Conference and Exposition on (pp. 532-535). IEEE.
Dhar, S. K., Bhunia, S. S., & Mukherjee, N. (2014, December). Interference aware scheduling of
sensors in IoT enabled health-care monitoring system. In Emerging Applications of Information
Technology (EAIT), 2014 Fourth International Conference of (pp. 152-157). IEEE.
Hassanalieragh, M., Page, A., Soyata, T., Sharma, G., Aktas, M., Mateos, G., ... & Andreescu, S.
(2015, June). Health monitoring and management using Internet-of-Things (IoT) sensing with
cloud-based processing: Opportunities and challenges. In 2015 IEEE International Conference
on Services Computing (pp. 285-292). IEEE.
Islam, S. R., Kwak, D., Kabir, M. H., Hossain, M., & Kwak, K. S. (2015). The internet of things
for health care: a comprehensive survey. IEEE Access, 3, 678-708.

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Kale, S. S., & Bhagwat, D. S. (2016). Highly Secured IoT Based Health Care System for Elderly
People using Body Sensor Network. International Journal of Innovative Research in Science
Engineering and Technology, 5(10).
Lee, B. M., & Ouyang, J. (2014). Intelligent healthcare service by using collaborations between
IoT personal health devices. blood pressure, 10(11).
Pinto, S., Cabral, J., & Gomes, T. (2017, March). We-care: An IoT-based health care system for
elderly people. In Industrial Technology (ICIT), 2017 IEEE International Conference on(pp.
1378-1383). IEEE.
Senthilkumar, R., Ponmagal, R. S., & Sujatha, K. (2016). Efficient health care monitoring and
emergency management system using IoT. International Journal of Control Theory and
Applications, 9(4), 137-145.