ABSTRACT
Automation has taken over the world of the 21st century. Within every field, new groundbreaking technology has emerged that makes life easier, faster and all the more efficient, including in the area of medicine and pharmacy. A lot of changes have been wrought. One such instance is medication, which has become an extremely common practice these days, especially for the elderly, who have to consume multiple sets of medication every day. It can become difficult to remember which to take and at what time. Monitoring elderly people for each and every second is major issue which motivated us to look at certain issues in providing general solutions for healthcare systems using an Internet of Things (IoT). Due to a drastic increase in traffic and population with limited resources the new technologies like IoT are very useful in the field of healthcare monitoring, and are also used to take decisions before any critical event occurs. Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are an enabling technology for mobile healthcare. With the latest developments in the field of wireless sensor networks technologies, miniaturized pervasive health-monitoring devices are now affordable. The recent advanced Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) incorporate context-aware sensing with increased specificity and sensitivity, along with continuous monitoring and analysis of physiological attributes. These systems reduce the huge costs that patients have to pay in hospitals, as monitoring can be done in real-time even in remote places and for a long duration. At the same time, applications like this will consume more power for sensing and wireless data transmission to a centralized node. This study focuses on basic and emerging technology of IoT and various methods of energy consumption techniques for WBAN to enable Green IoT for various applications.
