Internet of Things in health care using fog computing

Abstract

Internet of Things has seeded in many areas of humanoid lifestyle, of which the health care is the most crucial area on which the focus is to be induced. Goal of the scientists and the researchers is to further provide a hint of technology to the human life in order to make it simpler. With this being the focus, this paper will describe the use of smartphones as a sensor to keep the track of the health of the patients. Considering the various disadvantages of using cloud computing, this paper will be talking about the use of fog computing for faster analysis of data. With this aim in hand, we tend to come up and introduce the concept of Fog Computing which is the better system comparative to Cloud Computing. Fog Computing will emphasize on three types of patients and those would include the ones who are critically Injured or just generally hospitalized or the ones who might in future need occasional monitoring since they were discharged depending upon their current health status. The various unique characteristics like “Possessing Edge Location”, “Location Awareness”, “geographically distributed”, “real-time interactions”, “heterogeneity” and “Latency-Sensitivity” makes it more solitary, advance and distinctive in comparison to cloud computing.