The modelling and simulation of IoT system in healthcare applications
Nurul Amirah Mashudi, Hazilah Mad Kaidi, Shamsul Sarip, Liza Abdul Latiff · International Journal of Advanced Technology and Engineering Exploration · 2021
A megatrend towards the future and advancement of IoT technologies is emerging rapidly as more and more integrated devices and sensors are being envisioned.IoT receives and transmits fine-grained data that contain multimedia contents such as photo, video, and audio, with a growing number of devices.According to Cisco and Ericsson Incorporation, the Internet would be accessible by 50 billion devices in 2020 [1,2], and the figure will exceed 500 billion devices by 2025 [3].The IoT is a huge network that allows connecting devices in the cloud to capture and exchange data namely smartphones, PDAs, smart meters, RFID tags, smart cars, smart sensors, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and other embedded devices [4,5]. *Author for correspondenceIoT market, on preliminary forecast, will grow to $7.1 trillion in 2020 for its worldwide market [6].The direction of IoT becomes fundamental in current technologies as how devices and smart sensors are interacting with each other.Furthermore, the emerging technology of IoT which has gained huge attention that resulted in it to be widely used in various kind of industries and environments such as security, home, healthcare, autonomous vehicle, waste management, and logistics [7, 8].These scenarios imply that IoT is a large-scale ecosystem of socio-technical applications [9].According to the forecast, medical devices and applications of IoT healthcare market will rise to $136 billion in 2021 [10].One of the most essential and attractive IoT applications is in healthcare.The IoT-driven capacity has been growing with various Research