IoT based Smart Healthcare Monitoring Systems: A Review
Divyanshu Tiwari, Devendra Prasad, Kalpna Guleria, Pinaki Ghosh
Abstract
IoT devices are becoming very useful in today’s world. In today’s era IoT devices are increasing and it has a huge impact in healthcare. It can provide early detection of health problems and can reduce the cost of medical care. The healthcare monitoring system is required for a patient who needs to be monitored 24 X 7. The IoT based health monitoring system can monitor the vital health parameters of a person at all times. It can help patients in the case of emergency by providing immediate health consultation from the doctor available at a distant location. Further, IoT based smart systems enable remote monitoring of the patient by the guardian/ family member which is considered as one of the major advantages to save the precious human life. This paper provides an overview of various IoT based health monitoring systems. The comparison of various healthcare devices has also been presented by taking into consideration the important healthcare parameters.