Springer IoT Applications for Healthcare Systems (EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing)

This book discusses communications technologies used in the field of healthcare, including IoT, soft computing, machine learning, big data, augmented reality, and wearable sensors. The book presents various applications that are helpful for research scholars and scientists who are working toward identifying and pinpointing the potential of this technology. The book also helps researchers and practitioners to understand and analyze the e-healthcare architecture through IoT and the state-of-the-art in IoT countermeasures with real-time challenges. Topics of interest include healthcare systems based on advanced development boards, mobile health parameters recording and monitoring systems, remote health / patient monitoring, hospital operations management, abnormality / disease detection by IoT devices, and efficient drug management. The book is relevant to a range of researchers, academics, and practitioners working on the intersection of IoT and healthcare. From the Back Cover This book discusses communications technologies used in the field of healthcare, including IoT, soft computing, machine learning, big data, augmented reality, and wearable sensors. The book presents various applications that are helpful for research scholars and scientists who are working toward identifying and pinpointing the potential of this technology. The book also helps researchers and practitioners to understand and analyze the e-healthcare architecture through IoT and the state-of-the-art in IoT countermeasures with real-time challenges. Topics of interest include healthcare systems based on advanced development boards, mobile health parameters recording and monitoring systems, remote health / patient monitoring, hospital operations management, abnormality / disease detection by IoT devices, and efficient drug management. The book is relevant to a range of researchers, academics, and practitioners working on the intersection of IoT and healthcare. Amalgamates the IoT and healthcare domains, presenting both research and application of IoT throughout the healthcare industry; Compiles research on how various applications of IoT have made healthcare systems more enriching and fruitful; Relevant for researchers, academics, and practitioners tasked with applying IoT in the healthcare domain. About the Author Dr. Rahul Kher received B. E (Electronics) from Sardar Patel University in 1997, M.Tech (Electrical Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee in 2006 and Ph.D (Electronics & Communication Engineering) from Sardar Patel University in 2014. He has a teaching and research experience of over 21 years. His research interests include Biomedical Signal and Image Processing, Medical image analysis and Healthcare monitoring systems. He has published four books and more than 70 research papers in various international journals and conferences. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and was the founder Secretary of Signal Processing Society (SPS) Chapter of IEEE Gujarat Section during 2013-2015. He has been on the Reviewer Panel/ TPC member of many International Journals and conferences including the IEEE Communication Society Magazine, Journal of Biomedical Signal Processing and Control (Elsevier), Journal of Computer Networks (Elsevier), International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (Inderscience), Biomedical Engineering: Application, Basis and Communication (World Scientific), 1st Global IoT Summit (GIoTS 2017), Geneva, Switzerland, 3rd Global IoT Innovation Forum, Barcelona, Spain, 3rd Annual Int. Conf. on Wireless Comm. and Sensor Networks (WCSN 2016), 2016 IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), Virginia, US and many more. He has visited Japan, USA and UK for various academic purposes. Dr. Chirag N. Paunwala is working as a Professor, EC Department, and Dean R&D, Sarvajanik College of Engineering and Technology, Surat. His research interests include Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Deep Learning, and