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 currently working as an Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Govind Bhallabh Pant Institute of Engineering & Technology (formerly known as G. B. Pant Engineering College) (an autonomous institute of Uttarakhand Government), Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India. He has more than 18 years of teaching, administrative, and research experience. His current research interest includes signal processing and image processing, AI, machine learning, and IoT. Dr. Kumar has published over 30 research papers in reputed international journals and conferences, including IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, Wiley & Sons, Taylor & Francis, Inderscience, etc. He did his BE in Electronics & Communication Engineering, MTech, in Control and Instrumentation from MNNIT, Allahabad U.P., and PhD in Biomedical Signal Processing from IIT Roorkee, India.

Shahi Kant Verma, PhD, is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science Engineering at the Govind Bhallabh Pant Institute of Engineering & Technology (formerly known as G. B. Pant Engineering College) (an autonomous institute of Uttarakhand Government), Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India. He has more than 18 years of teaching, administrative, and research experience. His current research interest includes embedded systems, wireless sensor networks, reliable computing, fault-tolerant systems, computer organization, architecture, and distributed systems. Dr. Verma has published over 50 research papers in reputed international journals and conferences, including IEEE, Springer, Wiley & Sons, Taylor & Francis, Inderscience, Hindawi, etc. He did his BE in Electronics & Communication Engineering, MTech, PhD in Computer Science & Engineering.

Archna Singh, MBBS, is working as Assistant Professor at the J. K. Cancer Institute, GSV Medical College, Kanpur, India. Before joining the GSVM College, she worked as a senior resident at the Delhi State Cancer Institute, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, and as Junior Consultant at the Royal Cancer Institute, Kanpur. She has published many papers in reputed journals and conferences. Her current research interest includes advanced ovarian cancer. She completed her MBBS from MLB Medical College Jhansi, U.P., and MD in Radiotherapy from SGPGIMS, Lucknow, India.

Krishna Kumar, PhD, is currently working as a Research and Development Engineer at Uttarakhand Jal Vidyut Nigam Ltd. (UJVN Ltd.) in Dehradun, India. Prior to joining UJVNL, he served as an Assistant Professor at the Bipin Tripathi Kumaon Institute of Technology, Dwarahat, Uttarakhand, India. He has more than 14 years of experience and has authored numerous research papers published in reputable international journals and conferences, including IEEE, Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, and others. His current research focuses on IoT, machine learning, and renewable energy. He has a BE (Electronics and Communication Engineering) from Govind Ballabh Pant Engineering College, Pauri Garhwal, an MTech (Digital Systems) from Motilal Nehru NIT Allahabad, and a PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India.

Manoj Gupta, PhD, is presently working as a Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCOPE), VIT-AP University, Amravati, Andhra Pradesh, India. He has an overall experience of more than 18 years. He has published over 60 research papers in international journals and national and international conferences as well as book chapters. He has two patent grants and has published five patents and two Indian copyrights in his credit. He is the Editor-in-Chief of a number of book series, including the book series AAP Book Series on Digital Signal Processing, Computer Vision and Image Processing. His research interests are in antenna and wireless communications, biomedical image and signal processing, soft computing, computational intelligence, biomedical engineering, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience. He is a member of many professional bodies. He has also served as technical program committee member and reviewer for various international conferences. He also serves as editor, associate editor, and reviewer for many international journals. His name has been listed in Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering(R) USA and Marquis Who’s Who in the World(R) USA. He was awarded his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India. He received his MTech in Digital Signal Processing from H.N.B. Garhwal Central University, Uttarakhand, India, and BTech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Institute of Engineering & Technology, M.J.P. Rohilkhand University Campus, Bareilly (U.P), India.