Ontology-Based IoT Healthcare Systems (IHS) for Senior Citizens

Literature Review

Tun et. al (2020) discussed an overview about 11 different applications of IoT and wearables like aged care monitoring, chronic patient healthcare monitoring, the clinical applications, emergency conditions, mental health, and others to supervise healthcare of senior citizens and pointed out clinical point of view in comparison to technology point of view. Authors Lee et al., (2020) focused on older people and people with disabilities, caregivers, and healthcare providers with the help of a face-to-face questionnaire. The authors mentioned that discrepancies are still present in the current scenario related to the requirement of IoT healthcare services. As people require these technical services mostly in emergencies as well as persons with mild disabilities. In Pinto et al., (2017) a complete IoT healthcare system has been provided for monitoring the health life of elder persons and trigger alarm in case of any emergency. A wrist band is used by an elder person can collect data and send it to the We-care server with the help of a 6LoWPAN protocol. An Elderly IoT healthcare system is proposed in Park et al., (2017) where authors focus on brain stroke issues. Parameters like blood pressure, pulse rate, sugar level, oxygen level, motion tracking are tracked in senior citizens via wearable devices to control any emergency. Ray et. al (2014) proposed a five-layered framework named home health hub IoT (H3IoT) for elderly people who are in a homely environment. Basanta et. al(2016) presented solutions for monitoring the health of elder citizens with the integration of IoT technology. Authors have presented their health issues in older natives related to physical disability and severe psychological depressions.