Smartwatch – A booster to Healthcare IoT

The healthcare industry is experiencing a serious technology boom with the inception of IoT. Connected devices are continuously being leveraged in healthcare to innovate solutions and reduce costs. Smart hospitals and other innovations have been conceptualized where doctors and patients have a digital connection that can aid faster access to health records and other details that can be used to study the current and historic conditions of the patient precisely. Also, as we studied in Chapter 8, Disruptions in IoT with the growth of IoT and the emerging disruptions, the use of genomics for better healthcare solutions is already being practiced.

At the same time, we can see the smartwatch industry gathering a lot of traction. The smartwatch is basically a watch that can connect to different devices such as your smartphone, other smartwatches, and other smart devices. It is generally equipped with a wide variety of sensors and does much more than showing...