Chapter 13
IoT Based Wearable Healthcare System:
Post COVID-19
Priyanka Dwivedi and Monoj Kumar Singha
Abstract Pandemic like Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) shows that there is
an urgent need for changing our traditional healthcare monitoring system which
produces a lot of waste and pollutes the environment. At present patients need to
visit a doctor/clinic to check-up their health. Due to COVID-19, there are risks for
doctors and patients to be infected by COVID-19. There are many cases reported
worldwide where doctors/nurses and low immunity power people are easily affected
by Coronavirus. Many clinics, hospitals are not able to treat regular patients. Therefore, there is a need to change the system for healthcare monitoring. Different types of
micro/nano, wearable sensors and devices are developed for diagnosing diseases. The
advantages of these micro and wearable sensors are higher sensitivity, fast response
and low power consumption. Other hand, Instead of bulky instruments these wearable microsensors can be embedded/attached with the patient and it can monitor
the patient’s health remotely. Using modern computer and electronics technology
like the Internet of Things (IoT) platform (which includes computer vision, Very
Large Scale Integration (VLSI), big data analysis, deep learning, machine learning
and artificial intelligence), it will become a real time health monitoring system. In
this chapter we will initially discuss the present day’s healthcare system, followed by
micro and wearable sensors used for diagnostic purposes. Further focus of the chapter
will be on the electronics used for driving the sensors, devices and the collected data
will be transmitted. Finally the frameworks for IoT based wearable sensors will
be discussed. These IoT based wearable sensors will be a solution for sustainable
healthcare systems.
Keywords Wearable sensor · IoT in healthcare · COVID-19 · Flexible devices ·
Smart healthcare
P. Dwivedi (B)
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Information
Technology, Sri City, Chittoor, India
e-mail: priyanka.dwivedi@iiits.in
M. K. Singha
Department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
C. Chakraborty et al. (eds.), The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Green Societies,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66490-9_13
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IoT Based Wearable Healthcare System:
Post COVID-19
Priyanka Dwivedi and Monoj Kumar Singha
Abstract Pandemic like Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) shows that there is
an urgent need for changing our traditional healthcare monitoring system which
produces a lot of waste and pollutes the environment. At present patients need to
visit a doctor/clinic to check-up their health. Due to COVID-19, there are risks for
doctors and patients to be infected by COVID-19. There are many cases reported
worldwide where doctors/nurses and low immunity power people are easily affected
by Coronavirus. Many clinics, hospitals are not able to treat regular patients. Therefore, there is a need to change the system for healthcare monitoring. Different types of
micro/nano, wearable sensors and devices are developed for diagnosing diseases. The
advantages of these micro and wearable sensors are higher sensitivity, fast response
and low power consumption. Other hand, Instead of bulky instruments these wearable microsensors can be embedded/attached with the patient and it can monitor
the patient’s health remotely. Using modern computer and electronics technology
like the Internet of Things (IoT) platform (which includes computer vision, Very
Large Scale Integration (VLSI), big data analysis, deep learning, machine learning
and artificial intelligence), it will become a real time health monitoring system. In
this chapter we will initially discuss the present day’s healthcare system, followed by
micro and wearable sensors used for diagnostic purposes. Further focus of the chapter
will be on the electronics used for driving the sensors, devices and the collected data
will be transmitted. Finally the frameworks for IoT based wearable sensors will
be discussed. These IoT based wearable sensors will be a solution for sustainable
healthcare systems.
Keywords Wearable sensor · IoT in healthcare · COVID-19 · Flexible devices ·
Smart healthcare
P. Dwivedi (B)
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Information
Technology, Sri City, Chittoor, India
e-mail: priyanka.dwivedi@iiits.in
M. K. Singha
Department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
C. Chakraborty et al. (eds.), The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Green Societies,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66490-9_13
305