Internet Of Things

IOT - Internet of Things

Internet Of Things

With the rapid development of internet of things(IoT), it has been found that IoT has been used in everyparts of livestyle such as Smart healthcare, Big data analytics,  Agriculture,  Industrial Automation,  Disaster Management, Smart City,  Consumer Wearables etc.

IoT-  The term Iot comprised of two words i.e.- Internet and things(devices) means that regular device are connected to the Internet so that they can Interact, Collaborate, and exchange data with each other to perform a special task.


Why IoT ?

The basic need for IOT was to reduce human intervention into a machine cycle, so that it can transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.

IoT In Healthcare :

Healthcare is a vast ecosystem and it includes various type of healthcare specializations, activities and treatment of diseases, personal healthcare, healthcare building facilities, robotics, smart beds, smart pills, biosensors, the pharmaceutical industry, healthcare insurance and endless list of applications.


Applications and Acceleration of IoT In Healthcare

If we talk in consumer context(i.e. personal health trackers), Iot has an increasing place in the relationship between consumer/patient and healthcare providers and payers. It plays a major role in Patient engagement and consumer consciousness.

The Internet of Things helps doctors and patients and eliminates waiting times.   

  • Telemonitoring simplifies the treatment and in-home care of patients with chronic diseases.
  • Medical devices transmit vital data to physicians for screening and check-ups via the wireless network
  • IoT SIM card and domestic data hosting ensure strict patient data confidentiality

The IoT in health care comprised of  heterogeneous computing, wireless communication systems, and applications and devices that help patients and providers for monitoring, tracking, and storing patients’ vital statistics or medical information. Examples of such systems are smart meters, RFID, wearable health monitoring sensors, and smart video camera. 

IoT devices range from headsets that measure brainwaves to clothes that include sensing devices, Google Glass, BP monitors etc. All these have moved personal health monitoring system to the next level.

IoT Health care game Changer-

The IoT has already brought in significant changes in many areas of health care. It is rapidly changing the health care scenario by focusing on the way people, devices, and applications are connected and interact with each other. IoT is emerging as the most promising information and communication technology (ICT) solution which enables providers to improve health care outcomes and reduce health care costs by flawlessly collecting, recording, analyzing, and sharing myriads of new data streams in real time.

For example, to study a patient’s response to a specific therapy or drugs, traditionally, health care providers study different samples taken from the patients. These samples sometimes are not up to the required standard to derive a clear conclusion. But, the IoT has made it possible for the first time to collect real-time data from unlimited number of patients for a definite period of time through connecting devices. It is anticipated that it will also improve health care services for people in remote locations as monitoring systems provide a continuous stream of data that enables health care providers to make better decisions. IoT is gaining momentum among health care providers and the IT sector in emerging as a major technology trend for improved health care.

5G; the Fuel of IoT

5G is the first network designed to be scalable, versatile, and energy-smart for the hyperconnected Internet of Everything world. It is expected that 5g will be able to handle about 1000 times more data than today's cellular system. It will also become the backbone of the Internet of Things(IoT).

According to a report, 5G and IoT enabled smart machines to represent a $1.7B global opportunity by 2025. The commercial deployment and operation of 5g will bring important benefits to the Information and Communications technology.  IoT will play a massive role in deploying and operating systems at a very large scale. As the size of IoT systems grows to large scale,  their scope will also increase in terms of the impact on the enterprise system and consumer's everyday lives. 5G will optimize IoT networks by way of radio frequency management that meets the needs of both narrowband IoT applications as well as those that require higher bandwidth, which may be on an on-demand basis.


5G deployment in  Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), will facilitate an entirely new class of low-power devices for IoT networks and systems. These devices will rely upon MEC equipment for processing. some IoT devices will be very light-weight computationally speaking, relying upon edge computing nodes for most of their computation needs. MEC is also important to 5G for non-IoT applications as support for improved mobile broadband (ultra-fast and high definition video, enhanced web browsing, etc.) and Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC) dependent apps (virtual reality, UAV operation, autonomous vehicles, robotics, etc.).

 

The things involved in IoT varies from devices used to detect, actuate, signal, engage, and more. IoT things also involve everything from gateways, modules, and sensors to hardware and embedded software within products and equipment and other consumers, enterprise, and industrial assets. The IoT ecosystem could easily become highly cumbersome with so many different things to consider as part of IoT provisioning, activation, administration, and other management functions. There is a keen need for managed service solutions in support of provisioning, administration, maintenance, and security.










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