Internet of Things in Healthcare

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Abstract: Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming the most promising and life changing technology in todays world. It is a computing process in which the communication is made or aided with sensors. In the past few years, IoT has become most productive in the area of healthcare, to improve the quality of care to the patient’s. As there is a rise in health issues, providing health assistance to each and every member is important. People nowadays are busy with their lives and even they forget about their health problems. Some people do not even take care of their health. When the healthcare system has started communicating with IoT devices, it only started to maintain the digital identity of the patient. Today, IoT in healthcare has become more productive because the communication between doctor’s and patients has been improved with mobile apps. These apps are developed by the companies so that the doctors can monitor the patient’s health. If any problem has occurred to the patient, then the doctor approaches the patient and gives the appropriate treatment. In this thesis, particular focus is given to infant healthcare, because the greatest fear of parents is that they would lose their infants at any time. Therefore, in this thesis, the traditional care methods for infants are reviewed first. Then, an experimental setup is proposed and implemented which is capable of monitoring the patient health. In this review a commercial device has been identified which monitors the real-time information about the infant’s heart rate, oxygen levels, sleeping position, etc. If anything happens to the baby, the information will get to the mobile application which has already been developed by a company and is commercially available. Then, by doing an example field test for the baby, the information which is recorded is analyzed. The information that has been analyzed is sent to the mobile which is aided through a base station.