Internet of Things (IoT) enabled technology is evolving healthcare from
conventional hub-based systems to more personalized eHealth systems,
enabling faster and safer preventive care, lower overall cost, improved
patient-centric practice and enhanced sustainability. Efficient
IoT-enabled eHealth systems can be realized by providing highly
customized access to rich medical information and efficient clinical
decisions to each individual with unobtrusive monitoring. Wireless
medical sensor networks (WMSNs) are at the heart of this concept, and
their development is a key issue if such a concept is to achieve its
potential.
This book addresses the major challenges in realizing WMSNs in
forthcoming IoT-based eHealth systems. Challenges vary from cost and
energy efficiency to security and service quality, and to tackle such
challenges WMSNs must meet certain expectations and requirements such as
size constraints, manufacturing costs and resistance to environmental
factors existing at deployment locations. Reflecting this the book
focuses on both design and implementation aspects.
Topics covered include the impact of medical sensor networks in
smart-cities; an evaluation of mobile patient monitoring technologies;
overview of wireless sensor devices in medical applications; cyber
security issues in WMSNs and eHealth; smart hospital rooms and automated
systems; medical sensor capabilities in smart cloud networks; swarm
intelligence based medical diagnosis systems; and smart systems and
device for the blind.
