Survey on IoT solutions applied to Healthcare

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a new technological paradigm that allows any object or thing to be connected to other things, services or people through the Internet. IoT brings tools for empowering working areas such as health, logistics, industry, security, agriculture and environment. In this paper, we introduce a comprehensive survey of IoT technologies, methods, statistics and success cases applied to healthcare. In the last section its talked about the work done in this subject on the Colombian context, including successful applications and current projects.

Keywords

• Internet of things
• e-Health
• healthcare