Sunday, 3 April 2016

Internet of Things- System on Chip (IoT-SoC) for Health Care

Current health-care systems around the world are not that much smart, therefore it needs improvements. For remote patient monitoring or tele-medicine many signals are required such as heart rate, BP,ECG, EEG, EKT, EOG and EMG. If these signals are collected by some system using some sensor on patient's body and transferred to smart-phone for processing and generating results by using available app in smart phone and further transfer to patient's physician over internet, then this will make life easier for both patient and doctor. It is possible to achieve this by using IoT/ IoE (Internet of things/ everything) technology with SoC (system on chip).


Recently some battery-less SoC has been developed with integrated energy harvesting power management units [1]. Small and efficient power management units are in great demand for such kind of systems [2]. For real time health monitoring, few developed sensor nodes are also been reported in literature. These systems consists mainly sensor interface circuits, analog to digital converter, digital signal processing unit with digital power management and direct memory access arrangements. Radio frequency transmitter is also another important part of these on chip systems [3] [4]. Wearable computer or wearable electronics is playing its crucial role for making health care systems smarter and compatible. This area of research deals with many technologies such as software architecture, data communication network, mobile computing, power management and many more [5].

References-

[1] Dec 2015.

[2] 2014.



[5] Feb 2013.