Table 3.
Internet of Things (IoT) health-care applications.
| Infirmity/Condition | Sensor Types | Operations | IoT Role/Connection |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diabetes | Opto-physiological sensor | The output of the sensor is connected with TelosB mote to convert the analogue signals into digital | 6LoWPAN, and IPV6 architectures protocol enable all wireless sensors to communicate with wireless nodes that are IP-based |
| Diabetes Patients injury analysis | Smart-phone camera | Segmentation, and Decompression of image | The application uses smart-phone system-on-chip (SoC) to drive IoT |
| Monitoring of Heartbeat | Capacitive electrodes on electric circuit | Transmitted information in digital chain, which is connected to the wireless transmitter | Gateway are used to smart devices with the help of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. |
| Monitoring of blood pressure | Wearables sensor of blood pressure | Measurement, automatic inflation, and oscillometric. | Smart devices are connected in WBAN with the help of gateway |
| The temperature of body | Wearables sensor of blood pressure | Measurement of skin-based temperature | Smart devices are connected in WBAN with the help of gateway |
| System of Rehabilitation | Smart home sensor, full range of wearable sensors. | Tracking, reporting, detection, coordination, cooperation, feedback to the system. | Heterogeneous WSN enable sensors to have many access points. |
| Management for Medication | Wireless biomedical sensors suit. | Diagnosis and prognosis of essential records. Which are recorded by wearable sensors. | GPS, web access, database access, wireless links, RFIDs and multimedia transmission. |
| Management of wheelchair | WBAN sensors (ECG, pressure, accelerometers). | Wirelessly communicate with sinks nodes and observe the surrounding. | Data centre layer and smart devices with heterogeneous connections |
| Monitoring of Oxygen saturation | Pulse oximeter wrist | Intelligent detection of pulse time by time. | Pervasive incorporated clinical environment |
| Monitoring of skin infection and eye disorder | Smart-phone cameras | Matching of pattern with standard images of the library, visual inspection | The cloud aided application use smart-phone system-on-chip (SoC) to drive IoT |
| Cough detection | Microphone audio system is installed in a smart-phone | Analysis of recorded spectrograms. | The application uses smart-phone system-on-chip (SoC) to drive IoT |
| Detection of Melanoma | Smartphone cameras | Matching of the suspicious image with standard images of the library of cancerous skin. | The application uses smartphone system-on-chip (SoC) to drive IoT |
| Distant surgery | Surgical robot sensors, augmented reality sensors | Robot arms, master controller, and feedback to the user. | Information management and data connectivity in real-time. |