Iot-enabled Healthcare Systems: Applications, Benefits, and Challenges

IoT technology for healthcare is a modern innovation that provides reliable and secure use of available resources for serving the healthcare industry. It not only helps improve contact between the community and public healthcare providers but also significantly lowers healthcare costs and improves treatment outcomes. This book highlights the latest in IoT technology for revolutionizing current healthcare systems, focusing on how IoT can make healthcare smarter and more beneficial for people. It explores such technologies as medical blockchain, biosensing for bioanalyses, pesticide monitoring in humans, and more. It also discusses how the cloud platform can be used for health monitoring systems and the applications of IoT for cancer.

Yatindra Kumar, PhD, is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Govind Bhallabh Pant Institute of Engineering and Technology, Uttarakhand, India. With over 18 years of teaching, administrative, and research experience, Dr. Kumar has published over 30 research papers in reputed international journals and conferences, including those by IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, Wiley & Sons, Taylor & Francis, Inderscience, etc.

Shahi Kant Verma, PhD, is Associate Professor of Computer Science Engineering at the Govind Bhallabh Pant Institute of Engineering and Technology, Uttarakhand, India. He has more than 18 years of teaching, administrative, and research experience, Dr. Verma has published over 50 research papers in reputed international journals and conferences, including those by IEEE, Springer, Wiley & Sons, Taylor & Francis, Inderscience, Hindawi, etc.

Archana Singh, MBBS, MD (Radiation Oncology), is Assistant Professor in the Radiotherapy Department of the J K Cancer Institute (GSVM Medical College), Kanpur, India. She earlier worked as a Senior Resident at AIIMS, New Delhi. Her field of interest is breast cancer and gynecological malignancies. She has a number of publications in national as well as international journals.

Krishna Kumar, PhD, is a Researcher in the Department of Water Resources Engineering and the Center for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University, Sweden. Previously, he was Senior Engineer Researcher at the Rolls-Royce @ NTU Corporate Lab, Singapore, as well as an Assistant Engineer at UJVN Ltd. He has published many research articles in journals and has also authored/edited many books.

Manoj Gupta, PhD, is Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at VIT-AP University, Amravati, India. He has published over 60 research papers in journals and conferences as well as book chapters. He has two patent grants, five published patents, and two Indian copyrights to his credit. He is the Editor-in-Chief of a number of book series, including AAP Book Series on Digital Signal Processing, Computer Vision and Image Processing, and serves as editor, associate editor, and reviewer for many international journals.