Issues in IoT healthcare platforms: A critical study and review
Suvarnamala Sonune, Dhananjay R. Kalbande, Anjali S. Yeole, Shweta Oak · 2017
Internet of Things (IoT) devices has limited resource capacity. They have limited power supply, CPU capacity, memory, constrained bandwidth, throughput etc. However, these IoT devices can share the resources. Hence, they can be used in variety of applications like smart city, smart energy, and healthcare etc. Doctor-patient ratio in India is well below the global average. So, IoT can have profound effect on healthcare in India. Healthcare organizations must be prepared to play critical role in managing and analyzing huge volumes of data received from all health and fitness devices. In healthcare, several companies offer remote healthcare services through their platforms. However, most these platforms are proprietary. They can provide data and services to the specific devices and their proprietary servers. But these platforms cannot provide integration services, as they cannot communicate each other. They follow different standards or use different communication protocols. Management and interoperability of data is very important in healthcare. To identify issues in today's solutions and to improve the healthcare platforms this paper reviews different IoT platforms.