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IoT example: Healthcare

IoT example: Healthcare

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IoT example: Healthcare

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- [Narrator] Healthcare is one of the major industries that has adopted IoT. Within healthcare, IoT has been used to enhance patient quality of life, improve safety and security, avoid unnecessary healthcare costs and provide the right medical support at the right time. An example of an IoT application within healthcare is a health monitoring system for elderly patients. In general, the system consists of having body area sensors that collect biological data, microcontrollers to collect data from the sensors, gateways sent the data to a local or remote location using wireless or local network. The destination could be a simple computer software program used for monitoring, tracking and analyzing data by a healthcare provider. Here's an example of a health monitoring platform by Empatica. The wearable medical device collects and streams vital signs to a user-friendly app and web dashboard where data can be accessible by…

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