Healthcare and Patient Monitoring Using IoT
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2020
Yazarlar: MUSTAFA ALPER AKKAŞ, Radosveta İvanova SOKULLU, Çetin Hüseyin Ertürk
Internet of Things, SCI Expanded İndekslerine Giren Dergi, Uluslararası, 2020, cilt 11, ss 100173-
Özet
With continuously decreasing prices and increased functionality wireless communication technologies and most recently the Internet of Things (IoT) have successfully spread across various areas of our life. One of the most dynamically developing and demanding application areas is healthcare. IoT will affect the mediacal world starting from remote health and monitoring services, assisted living and elderly care to identifying and managing chronic diseases and providing personalized medication. This tutorial discusses the IoT technology related to medical applications, the various directions in which it penetrates the healthcare sector, and presents some future trends in its development like Bio-IoT and Nano-IoT or Internet of Nano Things. From the point of view of monitoiring patients' vital signs the most important component of an IoT based system is the Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN). WBANs consist of very small smart devices placed in or on the body of a patient which can communicate wirelessly. The paper discusses the architecture and implementation of a a specific biomedical application based on a WBAN, which has been prototyped and tested at Ege University Hospital. The proposed system focuses specifically on data for the pulse rate, plethysmogram and relative oxygen ratio of the patient. The collected data is transferred from the wireless sensor network to the central database using the IoT technology. The performance of the system is evaluated in terms of resiliance as well as correctness of the collected data in various network topologies and in terms of network stability, and effective range. (C) 2020 Published by Elsevier B.V.