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Trends in IoT based solutions for health care: Moving AI to the edge

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Greco, Luca, Percannella, Gennaro, Ritrovato, Pierluigi, Tortorella, Francesco, Vento, Mario·2020·Pattern Recognition Letters

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In recent times, we assist to an ever growing diffusion of smart medical sensors and Internet of things devices that are heavily changing the way healthcare is approached worldwide. In this context, a combination of Cloud and IoT architectures is often exploited to make smart healthcare systems capable of supporting near realtime applications when processing and performing Artificial Intelligence on the huge amount of data produced by wearable sensor networks. Anyway, the response time and the availability of cloud based systems, together with security and privacy, still represent critical issues that prevents Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices and architectures from being a reliable and effective solution to the aim. Lately, there is a growing interest towards architectures and approaches that exploit Edge and Fog computing as an answer to compensate the weaknesses of the cloud. In this paper, we propose a short review about the general use of IoT solutions in health care, starting from early health monitoring solutions from wearable sensors up to a discussion about the latest trends in fog/edge computing for smart health.

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Authors
Greco, L., Percannella, G., Ritrovato, P., Tortorella, F., & Vento, M.
Affiliations
University of Salerno (IT)
Corresponding author
Greco, Luca
Venue
Pattern Recognition Letters
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2020-07
Volume
135
Pages
346-353
ISSN
0167-8655 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3025245379
Cited by
318
References
61
Citations by year
2026: 15 · 2025: 36 · 2024: 53 · 2023: 72 · 2022: 65 · 2021: 67 · 2020: 10
FWCI
25.14
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Pattern Recognition Letters (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Internet of Things and AI
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Innovation in Digital Healthcare Systems
Keywords
Internet of Medical Things, edge computing, fog computing, wearable sensors, smart health monitoring, artificial intelligence in healthcare, response time, privacy and security, near real-time processing

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