IOT based Smart Healthcare Applications for People with Disabilities
Abstract
IoT (Internet of things) is one of the ubiquitous terms being heard all over the world. IoT unifies the complete world using common infrastructure helping the human kind to connect and control various things. At present IoT is more an explanatory term of a vision that the whole thing should be connected to the internet. IoT will be elementary in the future because the concept opens up opportunities for innovative services and fresh innovations.
This paper presents the concise outlines of the IoT, the basic requirements & some of the IoT applications. Smart health care is one of such significant applications. In this paper how IOT based Smart Healthcare can help handicapped people and support them to be efficient in daily life is discussed. A number of such healthcare applications for the people with disabilities, including visually impaired, hearing impaired and physically impaired people have been detailed.
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