articleIEEE AccessJan 1, 2015GOLD OA

The Internet of Things for Health Care: A Comprehensive Survey

Inha University · Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · +2 more institutions

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Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) makes smart objects the ultimate building blocks in the development of cyber-physical smart pervasive frameworks. The IoT has a variety of application domains, including health care. The IoT revolution is redesigning modern health care with promising technological, economic, and social prospects. This paper surveys advances in IoT-based health care technologies and reviews the state-of-the-art network architectures/platforms, applications, and industrial trends in IoT-based health care solutions. In addition, this paper analyzes distinct IoT security and privacy features, including security requirements, threat models, and attack taxonomies from the health care perspective.…

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  • Health care
  • Computer science
  • The Internet
  • Internet privacy
  • World Wide Web
  • Political science
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