Internet of Things for In-Home Health Monitoring Systems: Current Advances, Challenges and Future Directions

Abstract

Internet of Things has been one of the catalysts in revolutionizing conventional healthcare services. With the growing society, traditional healthcare systems reach their capacity in providing sufficient and high-quality services. The world is facing the aging population and the inherent need for assisted-living environments for senior citizens. There is also a commitment by national healthcare organizations to increase support for personalized, integrated care to prevent and manage chronic conditions. Many applications related to In-Home Health Monitoring have been introduced over the last few decades, thanks to the advances in mobile and Internet of Things technologies and services. Such advances include improvements in optimized network architecture, indoor networks coverage, increased device reliability and performance, ultra-low device cost, low device power consumption, and improved device and network security and privacy. Current studies of in-home health monitoring systems presented many benefits including improved safety, quality of life and reduction in hospitalization and cost. However, many challenges of such a paradigm shift still exist, that need to be addressed to support scale-up and wide uptake of such systems, including technology acceptance and adoption by patients, healthcare providers and policymakers. The aim of this paper is three folds: First, review of key factors that drove the adoption and growth of the IoT-based in-home remote monitoring; Second, present the latest advances of IoT based in-home remote monitoring system architecture and key building blocks; Third, discuss future outlook and our recommendations of the in-home remote monitoring applications going forward.

A Smartcard-Based User-Controlled Single Sign-On for Privacy Preservation in 5G-IoT Telemedicine Systems

“…Telemedicine systems is a technology of electronic message and telecommunication related to healthcare [1,18]. The National Health Services (NHS) of United Kingdom defines changes to NHS service model as "out of hospital care", "reducing emergency hospital services", "personalized care", "digitally enables care", and "integrated care systems models", which can correspond to the features of telemedicine systems [19,20]. Thanks to the IoT technology, which enable medical professionals to monitor patients who are outside of medical institutes in real-time, medical professionals can know users' health condition, if they are able to view the information immediately [1,20].…”

“…Thanks to the IoT technology, which enable medical professionals to monitor patients who are outside of medical institutes in real-time, medical professionals can know users' health condition, if they are able to view the information immediately [1,20]. In other words, telemedicine systems with IoT can enhance functions of patient's health monitor and proactive and preventive healthcare interventions [20].…”

“…Level 1 (primary healthcare unit) consists of users with webcam, smart phone, or wearable devices, which is enables communications of measured biodata through wireless communications, including radio frequency identification (RFID), near field communication (NFC), Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Zigbee, etc. [20]. Measured biodata are transmitted to the user's smartphone without being transferred to other systems [1].…”

Artificial intelligent system for multimedia services in smart home environments

“…There are authors like [9][10][11][12][13] who present reviews about IoT and Smart homes. Risteska Stojkoska and Trivodaliev [9] propose a holistic framework, which incorporates different components from IoT architectures/frameworks proposed in the literature.…”

“…Groups are established at homes with energy monitoring systems, systems with control capabilities, and systems with advanced data processing capabilities. Finally, Jia Chen et al review, in [13], the use of IoT in*home systems and applications for health monitoring. They reviewed the key factors that caused the growth of IoT monitoring at home.…”