USING THE INTERNET OF THINGS IN PERSONAL HEALTH

With the increase in development of technology and with the evolution of the Internet, a wide network was created, which is composed of devices with different sizes and multiple functions, known as Internet of Things ( IoT). Internet of Things has found high usability in different industry sectors, like:military sector, aerial, educational, medical and in many other sectors. It had a great influence in the medical sector, by making the process of monitoring medical data easier, medication management, diagnosis of diseases, saving and better analysis of the data, and reducing patients expenses. These monitoring devices like smartphones, smartwatches, glucose and oxygen monitors, have applications that collect patient data in real time, afterwards the data is shown to the users. They use different sensors to monitor metrics like heartbeats, quality and longevity of sleep, burned calories and many more. The potential for future development of Internet of Things in the personal health aspect is really high, also including here mental health which will be discussed in this thesis