Internet of Things for e-Health: An approach to medical applications

Monitoring individuals at risk is one of the great challenges of modern society, especially because the number of people who work and generate income assets in society has decreased while the number of the inactive population has increased. Increased life expectancy of the elderly and the technological evolution led to innovative and effective solutions for in-home monitoring and treatment of patients with chronical diseases. In this paper, a survey of Internet of Things (IoT) and its applications to e-Health is presented along with a case study using the K53 Tower System platform for e-Health. This platform offers a broad range of technologies for body area network (BAN) measurements and communications in healthcare and other medical applications. This paper proposes novel solutions to monitor people at risk, focusing on two fundamental and very important aspects: prevention as well as effective intervention in cases of medical emergency.