Introduction to wearable IoT devices
Wearable IoT devices are electrical devices with the technology involved that are made to be worn on the body. Notably, these devices are used with sensors and advanced features to collect the data. The data collected from people’s health measures oxygen levels, ECG readings, and various health patterns. The various wearable IoT devices such as smart watches, smart clothing, fitness trackers, and monitors of ECG. With the help of these variable IoT devices, particularly abnormal readings are detected. These support in providing real-time alerts and emergencies. Moreover, the wearables are responsible for gathering and tracking the warnings. Also, the healthcare professionals easily find out the potential health issues from it.
Role of wearable IoT devices in preventive healthcare
Chronic disease management
Wearable IoT devices help in managing the diseases such as asthma, diabetes, and hypertension. These devices are used to track the levels of glucose in blood and focus on the blood pressure with the real-time data. This eliminates the risk of complications, furthermore. The healthcare providers get the data from the devices with real-time updates. Especially, ECG patterns in the devices helps in identifying the abnormal conditions.
Early detection of health issues
Basically, one of the major advantages of wearable IoT devices is early detection of health issues. For example, the smart watch helps in monitoring the irregular heart rate and helps in suggesting the risk of heart issues. In this case, with the help of glucose levels, it helps the individuals to manage the sugar levels by monitoring the conditions over the devices. Subsequently, this alerts the person about the glucose level problem.
Vital monitoring
To monitor the virtual client, such as sleep, heart rate, and saturation of oxygen, these real-time parameters provide in detecting early abnormalities. One of the major signs is heart rate, where monitoring the heart rate helps in detecting conditions. The wearable devices monitor the heart rate with real-time tracking (Kalinin, 2024). There are modern variables such as fitness trackers, smartwatches, and sensors. Moreover, these are used for measuring the heart rate and detecting cardiovascular issues.
Remote monitoring
The remote monitoring system supports in collecting information of parameters such as heart rate, temperature, and blood pressure of patients in the healthcare industry (Chawla, 2020). These devices use software applications and algorithms to analyze the data and recommend treatment plans related to it. For example, the IoT sensor is used to detect the patient’s abnormality of heart rate and provide an alert so that the professionals of healthcare could suggest telemedicine and recommend treatment plans.
Wearable IoT devices
Benefits of wearable IoT devices
Saves healthcare costs
It plays a major role in saving the cost. There are a lot of expenses needed for an in-person visit and travel expenses. This not only minimizes the visiting of hospitals but also reduces the financial burden for the patients. Moreover, it saves a lot of time for both the patients and the healthcare systems.
Healthcare plans
Wearable devices make use of personalized health care and management. Moreover, it enables the treatments and takes preventive measures to get real-time updates (Lu, et al., 2020) Also, the continuous monitoring of health data helps in providing responsive measures, and adjustment to the treatment plans, and health plans.
Awareness of health
With the access of health data with wearable IoT devices, it enhances ownership of personal health and more awareness. The users keep track of fitness goals to adjust their daily routines. Also, this enhances a sense of motivation towards healthy aspects and healthy behaviors (Escobar-Linero, Munoz-Saavedra, Luna-Perejón, Sevillano, & Domínguez-Morales, 2023). Additionally, it guides in providing proactive choices and ensures long term health benefits for the patients.
Benefits of wearable IoT devices
Challenges of IoT wearable devices
Data privacy and security
Generally, there is a vast amount of data generated from IoT devices. There is a concern regarding privacy and security of these devices. These devices lead to identification of negative situations such as breaches and hacking. The storage of information should have a security and protect the privacy of the patient.
Regulatory and ethical issues
There are both regulatory issues and ethical issues regarding IoT devices. The integration of medical devices with the products could raise ethical issues. Moreover, there are compliance issues where users might not use the devices regularly. With this, there is no preventive health care.
Future of wearable IoT devices in preventive healthcare
The integration with both artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to enhance the predictive capability. Especially, the AI algorithms support in detecting the patterns in the early stage and provide a personalized prevention strategy (Surantha, Atmaja, David, & Wicaksono, 2021). More advanced sensors with high health metrics are used. Moreover, a plan of tracking inflammation and stress status of the individual and assessing the overall health. There is a focus on the population of senior health citizens to detect the problems related to aging. Furthermore, the variable devices rates with advanced sensors for monitoring the health metrics and providing individual health status in deeper insights. Alongside there is also focus on physical health monitoring with variable devices promoting well-being for individuals.
Conclusion
The wearable IoT devices are the major aspects in the preventive healthcare system. With the continuous monitoring of health and detecting the patterns of diseases early, and engaging in a healthier lifestyle, it helps to increase the well-being of individuals. However, there are challenges regarding privacy and compliance in using these devices. In summary, with the help of advanced technologies there can be elimination of these challenges. With the continuous collaboration and innovation with technology the healthcare providers enhance the future healthcare system and take control on effective measurement on the healthcare system. In addition, the personalized treatments enhance the treatments and prevent the complications further.
References
Chawla, N. (2020). AI, IOT and Wearable Technology for Smart Healthcare –A Review. Nidhi Chawla al. International Journal of Recent Research Aspects, 07(01), 9-13. Retrieved from https://www.ijrra.net/Vol7issue1/IJRRA-07-01-02.pdf
Escobar-Linero, E., Munoz-Saavedra, L., Luna-Perejón, F., Sevillano, J. L., & Domínguez-Morales, M. (2023). Wearable Health Devices for Diagnosis Support: Evolution and Future Tendencies. sensors, 23(3), 1-23. Retrieved from https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/3/1678
Kalinin, K. (2024, Dec 12). Wearable Technology in Healthcare: The Future of Medical Devices. Retrieved from Topflightapps: https://topflightapps.com/ideas/wearable-technology-in-healthcare/
Lu, L., Zhang, J., Xie, Y., Gao, F., Xu, S., Wu, X., & Ye, Z. (2020). Wearable Health Devices in Health Care: Narrative Systematic Review. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth, 8(11), 1-15. Retrieved from https://mhealth.jmir.org/2020/11/e18907/citations
Surantha, N., Atmaja, P., David, & Wicaksono, M. (2021). A Review of Wearable Internet-of-Things Device for Healthcare. Procedia Computer Science, 179(11), 936-943. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349489885_A_Review_of_Wearable_Internet-of-Things_Device_for_Healthcare
Keywords
Early detection, Treatment plans, Healthcare industry, Wearable IoT devices, Preventive healthcare
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