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. 2020 Jul 21;20(14):4047. doi: 10.3390/s20144047

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.