Vol 1, No 2 (2018)

Survey on Improvement of Health Care system using Internet of Things in Rural Areas

Author: Esther Grace M

Abstract: The health care services using IoT can be extended to the next level by implementing it in the Rural Areas where even the basic medical facilities are denied. IoT, its perspectives, its role in the Health Care services, implementation, applications and the challenges faced are explored in a depth. The advancements in IoT based health care systems and the ideas for taking it to the next stage, in such that, the humanity gets benefited .Telemedicine is also used in Monitoring Patients health through Video call instead of meeting the Doctor in Person. Till now, there is no standard of compatibility for the tagging and monitoring equipment's. Continues Monitoring of the Sensor Devices by the primary user and providing more sensors & providing more settings applications so that person can have more user friendly environment and will be able to do more task automatically rather than manually. In Rural Area’s the Patients details and general check up is carried out and the data of the Patient is stored in the cloud and a sensors embedded in Bangles/Bracelet which is used to monitor the the health conditions of the Patients like Heartbeat, Pulse etc are provided to the Patient. If there is a variation in the Heartbeat, Pulse and excessive sweating which is diagnosed as Heart Attack then the Primary user monitoring the Patients details immediately sends the SMS alert to the Ambulance driver near by the Patients place whose details and Registered mobile number are stored in the cloud .The Ambulance driver immediately reaches the Patients place and takes the Patient to the Hospital for further Treatment.

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