Wearable Devices in Medical Internet of Things: Scientific Research and Commercially Available Devices

Abstract

ObjectivesWearable devices are currently at the heart of just about every discussion related to the Internet of Things. The requirement for self-health monitoring and preventive medicine is increasing due to the projected dramatic increase in the number of elderly people until 2020. Developed technologies are truly able to reduce the overall costs for prevention and monitoring. This is possible by constantly monitoring health indicators in various areas, and in particular, wearable devices are considered to carry this task out. These wearable devices and mobile apps now have been integrated with telemedicine and telehealth efficiently, to structure the medical Internet of Things. This paper reviews wearable health care devices both in scientific papers and commercial efforts.MethodsMIoT is demonstrated through a defined architecture design, including hardware and software dealing with wearable devices, sensors, smart phones, medical application, and medical station analyzers for further diagnosis and data storage.ResultsWearables, with the help of improved technology have been developed greatly and are considered reliable tools for long-term health monitoring systems. These are applied in the observation of a large variety of health monitoring indicators in the environment, vital signs, and fitness.ConclusionsWearable devices are now used for a wide range of healthcare observation. One of the most important elements essential in data collection is the sensor. During recent years with improvement in semiconductor technology, sensors have made investigation of a full range of parameters closer to realization.

A Systematic Literature Review of the Factors that Influence the Accuracy of Consumer Wearable Health Device Data

“…fitted unto CWHDs can influence the accuracy of the data collected by the device. In a study by Haghi et al [50], the authors confirm the influence of high-quality components on the performance of CWHDs. Components such as high storage capacity, long wearing battery, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi compatibility performed better and were more accurate than devices with low quality components.…”

MagTrack

“…As wearable sensing and computing technologies become mature, activity tracking using multiple wearables or tags is not new. There are research prototypes ranging from body sensor networks to medical IoT [5,14,21,24,28,41] and to commercially available products [8,17,31] for a wide range of applications, including health monitoring, sports, entertainment, and scientific explorations. For safety-critical applications like law enforcement and firefighting, wearables also show a promising future [17,76].…”

Biosensors and Internet of Things in smart healthcare applications: challenges and opportunities

“…Within the landscape sketched in the previous sections, and motivated by the significant benefits of IoT/IoMT-enabled smart healthcare applications, there is a plethora of efforts driven by the research and industry communities that aim to overcome the associated challenges and realize the full potential of these technologies towards improving the health, well-being and independent living of patients and the elderly (Haghi et al, 2017;Zhu et al, 2015;Chaaraoui et al, 2012). In this context, the following subsections highlight some state of the art research efforts on the topic, presenting three research projects that have recently started or will soon start tackling said issues, each proposing a novel approach and investigating different angles of the IoT/IoMT-enabled smart healthcare landscape.…”