A survey on IoT applications, security challenges and counter measures
Ankush Balaram Pawar, Shashikant U. Ghumbre · 2016
Internet of Things (IoT) is a recent technology that permits the users to connect anywhere, anytime, anyplace and to anyone. In this paper, the various medical services of IoT such as Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), Internet of m-health, community healthcare, indirect emergency healthcare and embedded gateway configuration are surveyed. Further, the applications of IoT in sensing the glucose level, ECG monitoring, blood pressure monitoring, wheelchair management, medication management and rehabilitation system are analyzed. The analysis results show that the use of IoT in the medical field increases the quality of life, user experience, patient outcomes and real-time disease management. The introduction of medical IoT is not without security challenges. Hence, the security threats such as confidentiality, authentication, privacy, access control, trust, and policy enforcement are analyzed. The presence of these threats affect the performance of IoT, thus, the cryptographic algorithms like Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Data Encryption Standard (DES) and Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) are used. The investigation on these techniques proves that the RSA provides better security than the AES and DES algorithms.