مقاله انگلیسی رایگان در مورد اینترنت اشیا (IoT) در دستگاه های حسگر زیستی پوشیدنی برای کاربردهای مراقبت های بهداشتی – الزویر 2022

Abstract

     An individual’s health is one of the essential aspects of life, but due to the limited technology at health care centers, many people face various restrictions during their treatment. These days, Internet-of-Things (IoT) is the most fascinating topic that provides solutions to these limitations in various ways. The IoT is utilized in various healthcare conducts that include detection, treatment, and monitoring of diseases. Wearable devices are a part of IoT that is proposed for helping patients to get the correct treatment. The conventional communication networks developed for humans-based applications face many issues like stringent latency, restricted computing capability, and short battery life. On the other hand, the onset of 5G has developed a new set of technologies that offer the vital “backbone” for connecting to the billions of devices for the upcoming IoT that would completely modify our professional and private lives. Due to the data capabilities, intelligent management, and superfast connectivity of 5G, this network has enabled new health care opportunities that include treatment, data analytics, diagnostics, and imaging. In the current review, a systematic literature survey of IoT, IoT-based wearable devices, and the role of 5G in IoT for healthcare is described in detail. Furthermore, we have explained the usage of wearable devices in detecting the issue in terms of healthcare, such as curing, monitoring, and detection of disease. Nevertheless, this review article also emphasizes the employment of IoT architecture and its wearable devices in addition to the upcoming research challenges related to this area.

Introduction

     With the increase in the advancement of technology, the demand for comfort and accessibility is also increasing, leading to an increase in the development of funding programs. Usually, it has been observed that many city hospitals lack to fulfil certain medical requirements of the patients, and therefore, patients have to search in other cities/move to other countries’ hospitals to complete their desired medical needs (Surantha et al., 2021). These days, the Internet-of-Things (IoT) in healthcare has become one of the latest trending subjects and has been found as a promising characteristic to improve the current technologies that lower its cost in each aspect of healthcare. Moreover, the IoT in biomedical is considered as the need of an hour that is required to provide medical aid to humans for monitoring, managing, detecting, and taking action from the system after receiving data, thereby effectively reducing the cost of health expenses (Khan et al., 2018). IoT is the sub-category of a computer having sensors, microcontrollers, and transceivers that are interconnected to provide information to aid the user with detailed information. It is applied in various healthcare means, including detection of disease as a precaution, monitoring disease as a self-healing route, and treating disease as the healing solution (YIN et al., 2016). Wearable devices are a part of IoT that have been developed for helping people to get the correct treatment. The IoT-based wearables are smart devices that could be worn with external accessories, tattooed or even adhered on the skin, implanted in the body, or embedded in garments and clothing.

Conclusion and prospects

     With the advancement in science and technology, the accessibility of healthcare has now become easy and affordable. But, many city hospitals lack the desired medical requirements, and therefore, the introduction of biosensors has eased these problems. Moreover, these days, the Internet-of-Things (IoT) in healthcare has become one of the latest trending subjects and a promising characteristic to improve the current technologies that lower its cost in each aspect of healthcare. IoT has become the need of the hour as it is useful for monitoring, managing, detecting, and taking action from the system after receiving data, thereby effectively reducing the excess cost of health expenses. Wearable devices are a part of IoT that have been developed to help patients get the correct treatment. These IoT-based wearables devices are considered smart devices that could be worn with external accessories tattooed or even adhered to on the skin, implanted in the body, or embedded in garments and clothing. These smart devices can link with the internet for collecting, sending data, and receiving information for making smart decisions. These wearables have become a vital fragment of IoT technology, and their growth is shifting towards more specialized and practical utility from simple accessories.