- [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 healthcare providers
to decide whether an intervention is needed.
Now, since the healthcare monitoring system
provides accessibility to different users,
for example, different healthcare providers,
the patient themselves,
and/or any family members or caregivers.
So one of the challenges of using IoT within healthcare
is providing data security and privacy.
Security can be achieved by utilizing encryption
when transferring the data.
An example is using microprocessor
that provides a secure, encrypted communication
through secure socket layer or SSL.