IOT-Based Health Monitoring Systems: A Review

Abstract

The emerging technological trend in the healthcare sector is geared towards changing the usual healthcare services and routine medical check-ups from hospital centric to home centric. This offers a reduction in the total expenses incurred and the workload on the clinical personnel. As such, remote health monitoring systems based on Internet of Things (IoT) are developed to aid in monitoring some physiological parameters (such as: heart rate, body temperature, blood pressure, and glucose level.) of patients at home. The devices often use internet connectivity to effectively monitor the health condition of patients. In this paper, a review of IoT based health monitoring systems is presented. Diverse measuring parameters and different approaches were used. Suggestions on possible remediation to the challenges of data privacy and security in such systems were proffered. The significance of developing remote health monitoring systems, factors necessitating the need for such systems, the objectives for designing the systems, potential for product commercialization, application area in the health sector, and system requirements are discussed