Health Internet of Things: Strengths, Weakness, Opportunity, and Threats

Abstract

These days, based on the recent development in IoT technologies, a large number of innovative healthcare applications should be created. Health Internet of Things (HIoT) is a novel technology that used to connect many diver’s medical sensors to IoT devices. The HIoT facilitates remote data collection and monitoring in healthcare fields. This paper is a review study that addresses the impact of HIoT on healthcare applications. In this regards, we investigated the most important technologies used in HIoT and describe the main strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of HIoT-based applications. Based on the results, the potential strengths and opportunities of the HIoT technology is very different and widespread; however, it has some significant weaknesses and threats including complexity of handling a huge number of heterogeneous objects, achieving scalability, reliability, efficiency, availability, security, and interoperability with IoT systems across healthcare applications.