An IoT Application: Health Care System with Android Devices
With more and more widespread use of The Internet of Things (IoT), many industries, including health care industry, are being revolutionized in gathering and analyzing the data using IoT. In this article, we develop an IoT system that is capable of measur
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Computer Science and Information Systems Department, Bradley University, Peoria, IL 61625, USA [email protected]
Abstract. With more and more widespread use of The Internet of Things (IoT), many industries, including health care industry, are being revolutionized in gath‐ ering and analyzing the data using IoT. In this article, we develop an IoT system that is capable of measuring saturation peripheral oxygen and pulse rate, and sending them to cloud side server. The development includes Amazon cloud server set-up and Android app development. The server is used for data storage, manipulation, analysis and access. The Android app is for device data collection, working as a bridge between the measuring devices and cloud side server. The advantage of this IoT system is specified and the future promising of this tech‐ nology is analyzed. Keywords: The Internet of Things · IoT · Bluetooth · Android · Cloud computing
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Introduction
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network featuring connections among physical objects or things embedded with electronics, software, sensors or connectivity. It enables those objects to exchange data, and hence, reach superior value and service. Like each computer in the Internet with a unique identifier, namely IP address, every physical node in the IoT can be uniquely identified through its embedded computing system that is capable to work with each other within the existing Internet infrastructure. Nowadays, IoT technology is widely spreading in media, environmental monitoring, manufacturing, energy management, medical and health care systems, and many other industries. For example, earthquake and tsunami detectors, emergency centers and individual cell phones can be connected by IoT to provide immediate emergency service [1]. Before IoT, computers and the Internet almost completely relied on humans to input data and information, and most information was acquired and created through typing, recording, photographing and bar code scanning, which are mainly human activities. Here comes a problem: humans are restricted in gathering data from real world in respect of time, endurance and precision. We live in material world and we cannot feed on virtual information, because despite the importance of it, material is more substantial. Infor‐ mation technology is so dependent on processed information of humans that it records our thoughts rather than the studied objects themselves. If somehow, computers can be cognitive and gather information from real world without human beings, we can reduce © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 O. Gervasi et al. (Eds.): ICCSA 2016, Part I, LNCS 9786, pp. 563–571, 2016. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-42085-1_46
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loss and consumption yielded by tracking and quantifying them [2]. We will know when our cars need repairing, out houses need renovating and our bodies need examining. In a word, IoT has the potential to change the world at least as much as the Internet did. There are many advantages of incorporating IoT into our live
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