Seminar report on internet of medical things

1. INTERNET of MEDICAL THINGS
BY
AJAYI DEBORAH OZAVIZE
ICT/225220110
SUPERVISOR
MR. ABAS
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
SCHOOL OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
AUCHI POLYTECHNIC, AUCHI.

2. PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Abstract
Introduction
Aim and objectives
Background
Literature review
Benefit of IoMT
Challenges in data pipelining
Solutions and best practices in data pipelining
Conclusion

3. Abstract
Internet of Things (IoT) plays a vital role in the field of healthcare. The development of smart sensors,
smart devices, advanced lightweight communication protocols made the possibility of interconnecting
medical things to monitor biomedical signals and diagnose the diseases of patients without human
intervention and termed as Internet of Medical Things (IoMT). This research contributes towards a
digitized healthcare system by interconnecting the available medical resources and healthcare services. As
IOT converge various domains but our focus is related to research contribution of IOT in healthcare
domain. This work will also help the researchers to understand applications of IOT in healthcare domain.
This contribution will help the re

4. INTRODUCTION
• The medical health facilitates access to the right medical
information in dynamic and distributed healthcare organizations
leading to more efficient and less costly healthcare services.
• Internet of medical things (IoMT) is some type of IoT that
consists of a set of connected medical devices and sensors.
(Allwood, et al., 2018). The patients’ medical data are captured by
a sensor connected to their bodies. The collected data are then
sent to medical experts for diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment.

5. Aim and Objectives
i.To identify the gains/benefit of IoMT
ii.To examine the challenges of IoMT
iii.To proffer possible solutions to the
challenges of IoMT

6. BACKGROUND
• IoMT refers to the use of mobile computing, medical sensors, and cloud computing
to monitor patients' vital signs in real-time and the use of communication
technologies to relay data to a cloud computing framework. The data can be accessed
by physicians to monitor, diagnose, and treat patients effectively. The Internet of
Medical Things combines the dependability and safety of conventional medical
equipment. It is general enough to cope with a range of illnesses that ask for
extremely diverse monitoring and actuation needs, and it has the capacity to handle
several devices that are deployed for numerous patients. This gives it the power to
tackle the issue of aging and chronic illnesses.

7. Figure 1: Different types of wearable devices mounted on different parts of the body
depending on their objective.

8. LITERATURE REVIEW
• The medical things which have the facility to transfer data over a
network without demanding human to human or human to
computer interaction are termed as Internet of Medical Things
(IoMT). According to Gartner research and advisory company,
20.4 billion things will be connected to the internet (El-Wakeel,
2018) by 2020.

9. Benefit of Internet of Medical things
•Remote monitoring system for diabetic patients: A Bluetooth
based glucose monitoring system is given in the sensor node is
paired with a smartphone via Bluetooth. The monitoring application
in the smartphone is able to give the visualization of the measured
values.
•Mobile health: The wearable such as smart watches, smart t-shirt,
etc can be paired with the smart-phones via Bluetooth to provide
visualization of their vital signal status in real-time.
•Smart Hospital: RFID, sensors networks, wireless communication
protocols, and embedded technology are enabling the development
of smart hospitals with IoT.

10. CHALLENGES IN DATA PIPELINING
•Data security and privacy
•Lack of Trust by Medical Experts
•Heavily Dependent on data
•Increasing the operational time of battery

11. SOLUTIONS
i. AI and blockchain can be used to enforce the security of IoMT systems
(Ghubaish, et al., 2020). Resorting to the private blockchain may be a more
reasonable solution.
ii. It is no doubt that processes and services offered by IoMT heavily depend on data
gathered from sensors. Therefore, it is always desirable to have portable IoMT
services. (Arora, 2019).
iii.Patients may have to tolerate multiple devices for long periods. Therefore, these
devices must be as comfortable as possible so that patients would agree to use
them as long as necessary (Arora, 2019).
iv. Developing heavy-duty batteries and designing-efficient protocols are possible
solutions to tackle the energy consumption challenge (Chen, et al., 2014).

12. CONCLUSION
IoMT has the potential to revolutionize healthcare services. However, several
challenges must be addressed before IoMT can be fully integrated into current
medical services. IoMTs are the future of healthcare systems. As it develops, it
delivers faster and less expensive health care (Razdan and Sharma, 2021). The
Internet of Things (IoT) is mostly utilized to gather remote information for
patients via wearable sensors/devices (Sudevan and Joseph, 2019) and save it in
cloud databases.

13. REFERENCES
Arora, S. (2020). IoMT (Internet of Medical Things): Reducing Cost While Improving Patient
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Allwood, X., Du, K.M., Webberley, A., Osseiran, B.J. and Marshall, (2018) Advances in acoustic
signal processing techniques for enhanced bowel sound analysis, IEEE reviews in biomedical
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El-Wakeel, J., Li, A., Noureldin, H., S., Hassanein, and N. Zorba, (2018) “Towards a Practical
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