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The IoT consists of the physical devices and the sensors that are connected to the internet. All the interconnected devices gather and transfer the data over the internet. IoT device enable remote monitoring of the patients, which avoids patient’s visit to hospital unnecessarily. The wearable device senses the human heart rate, blood pressure (BP), weight, stress level, physical activities, glucose level, etc. Because of the IoT-enabled devices, the people can self-track their health conditions. These sensor devices gather a large volume of health data continuously. Apart from wearable devices, there are applications in smartphones and other medical devices, which can gather information of patients and send it to the cloud on a continual basis.

Figure 3.3 Different sources of healthcare data.