Abstract
Internet of things (IoT)-enabled devices perform remote monitoring of patients and keep them healthy. They also facilitate physicians to provide high-quality care to their patients with accurate data. Chronic disease involves a wide range of health issues like diabetics, asthma, heart disease, kidney disease, and other disorders. To avoid disease progression, the IoT-based smart medical kit helps in episodic patient monitoring, continuous patient monitoring in acute conditions, and patient alarm monitoring. The chapter focuses on the deployment of interconnected devices (sensors, actuators, monitors, detectors, and camera systems) to collect data from heterogeneous systems. The output is connected to a think speak dashboard for monitoring the variation over the period. The smart kit provides more accurate and reliable recommendations to assist patients in controlling their chronic disease and assists in remote monitoring of a patient's health conditions.
TopBackground
Today we are in an information era. The advancement of technology and scientific theories gradually began to digitize and to informatize. Smart health care is a simple technological advancement at multi-level changes. As healthcare technologies are advancing, there is a need for high and effective engagement with patients. The demand for remote health care through the advent of technology will provide a real time update of patient’s information. The basic foundation for our smart health solutions involves
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Sensors to collect patient data
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Cloud enabled data storage, process and analyze data
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Web and mobile based applications for care givers and users
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A gateway to transmit data
Chronic diseases include diabetics, kidney, heart, cancer, obesity, arthritis and stroke are most common among people. It is difficult for doctors to visit them regularly. Therefore, the proposed IoT handy smart kit will help doctors to track the patient’s health status remotely. The Internet enabled devices can store patients’ health data on cloud and can be accessed by medical professionals anytime, anywhere. These data can be captured daily and can be uploaded and visualized in cloud to monitor the changes in the health data.
TopDharani et. al. (2020) developed an Automated Peritoneal Dialysis (APD) device as a vital treatment option for patients suffering from renal failure. The life span was improved day by day than the patient’s undergoing hemodialysis. The hyperkalaemia that is K ion is monitored by this device, the increase of which might lead to severe heart damage to patients like arrhythmia, shock, heart attack and sometimes to even death. The K range is measured continuously and the value is shared to the medical team and care taker of the patient by Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) system.