Overview
- Features a number of practical solutions and applications of IoT and ICT on healthcare
- Includes application domains such as communication technology and electronic materials and devices
- Applies to researchers, academics, students, and practitioners around the world
Part of the book series: EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing (EAISICC)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Fundamentals
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Case Studies
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Keywords
About this book
This book provides an insight on the importance that Internet of Things (IoT) and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions can have in taking care of people's health. Key features of this book present the recent and emerging developments in various specializations in curing health problems and finding their solutions by incorporating IoT and ICT. This book presents useful IoT and ICT applications and architectures that cater to their improved healthcare requirements. Topics include in-home healthcare services based on the Internet-of-Things; RFID technology for IoT based personal healthcare; Real-time reporting and monitoring; Interfacing devices to IoT; Smart medical services; Embedded gateway configuration (EGC); Health monitoring infrastructure; and more.
- Features a number of practical solutions and applications of IoT and ICT on healthcare;
- Includes application domains such as communication technology and electronic materials and devices;
- Applies to researchers, academics, students, and practitioners around the world.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Nishu Gupta is specialized in the field of Communication and Networking. He has a PH.D. in Electronics and Communication Engineering and is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Vaagdevi College of Engineering, Warangal, India. Dr. Gupta is an active reviewer of research articles in reputed SCI and Scopus indexed Journals. He has co-authored two books, has more than 28 publications among peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and conferences proceedings. Dr. Nishu has been Invited as Speaker on various occasions and has been awarded and honoured by various academic and research organizations owing to his contribution to the fraternity. His research interest includes wireless communication, device-to-device communication, heterogeneous networking, cognitive radio ad-hoc network, CRAN, Internet of Things, etc.
Dr. Sara Paiva is an Adjunct Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, a PhD in Informatics Engineering from University of Vigo and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oviedo since January 2018, under advanced drivings assistants area. Sara Paiva coordinates ARC4DigiT, an Applied Research Center for Digital Transformation, created in january 2018 and currently under approval of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. Her main line of research is mobility and mobile/IoT solutions applied to the promotion of social inclusion. She is frequent book editor of Springer and IGI books, has more than 30 publications in international journals and conferences, is a frequent reviewer of journals and international conferences and has oriented several final projects of Bachelor and Master in her main line of work.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: IoT and ICT for Healthcare Applications
Editors: Nishu Gupta, Sara Paiva
Series Title: EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42934-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42933-1Published: 13 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42936-2Published: 14 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42934-8Published: 12 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2522-8595
Series E-ISSN: 2522-8609
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 298
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 106 illustrations in colour
Topics: Communications Engineering, Networks, Health Informatics, Health Informatics, Health Care Management, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction