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.