Internet of Things in Healthcare - Applications, Issues and Challenges

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) has a wide range of healthcare applications, including support for independent living and wellness and for the management of diseases. Furthermore, IoT healthcare has the goal of helping patients control their own condition and connect and interact with healthcare professionals. IoT is affecting each and every aspect of human life, since it is a woven combination of traditional system, sensors, cloud, mobile applications, web applications and control systems. IoT is a network of objects, where each object has unique identification as well as communication capabilities. IoT is playing vital role in many real world applications such as- smart health, smart city, smart home, smart transportation and smart traffic management. But with ever increasing number of heterogeneous devices in IoT network and the amount of data being chandelled, there are certain issues which are needed to be resolved such as security, privacy, and identification have been discussed in this paper.