Narrowband IoT for Healthcare

TL;DR

This paper discusses how Narrowband IoT (NBIoT) can effectively support healthcare services like patient monitoring and remote observation, emphasizing its advantages and challenges in this critical sector.

Contribution

It highlights the potential of NBIoT as an economical, resource-efficient solution for healthcare applications and discusses the main issues and difficulties faced in its deployment.

Findings

NBIoT can effectively support healthcare monitoring and remote services.

NBIoT offers a cost-effective and resource-efficient IoT solution for healthcare.

Main challenges include technical and deployment issues in healthcare contexts.

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) is going to have its presence in all the essential sectors of human lives. It has the ability to provide both mainstream as well as the value added services in almost all the sectors. Healthcare is an important service sector for overall development. It has far reaching implications in the quality of living. In the modern world where the quality of living has been degraded significantly IoT can certainly play a constructive role in providing better services. In healthcare, there are several occasions such as patient health monitoring, remote observation and emergency proceedings outside the hospital where sensors can play essential roles. The coordinated sensor networks can provide even better services. IoT has the ability to provide all these coordinated services. Narrowband IoT (NBIoT) is an economical and simpler version of IoT which can handle these tasks effectively. Due to the widespread requirement of healthcare, NBIoT is a preferred solution as it needs fewer amounts of resources. In this article, we provide the main issues and difficulties of NBIoT in healthcare.