A Survey on Healthcare and Agriculture in Internet of Things
S. Usha Kiruthika · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2018
Internet of Things (IoT) is an environment of connected physical objects that are accessible through the internet. The ‘thing’ in IoT could be any object with build-in-sensors that have been assigned an IP address and have the ability to collect and transfer data over a network without manual assistance. IoT has various applications namely smart home, smart city, smart retail, smart healthcare, smart agriculture, energy engagement, poultry and farming, smart water management, industrial purpose. This paper overviews about two applications a). Healthcare becomes one of major economic and social problems around the world, especially in aging people, where it costs tremendous health expanses. In medical care the IoT is used to monitor physiological status of patients through sensors by gathering and analyzing their information and transfer that data through internet. This data is stored into database server which manages data and provides accessibility. User can view this data with the help of Android App. b) Agriculture plays important role in India which mostly depends upon natural resources and the weather conditions. Here, the user can monitor the agriculture environment from a remote location. The growth of the plant is measured by using sensor which is placed in the soil. The sensors will collect the input as measurements and transfer it to the controller through internet from where the farmers will get the intimation of plants growth. The intimation may be an application or a text message.