ABSTRACT
Wireless sensing devices and networks have become an omnipotent technology that rose to prominence at the turn of the century. This led to groundbreaking discoveries and applications of wireless sensors for discovering, procuring, monitoring, and analyzing data from obscure and hazardous sources. Coupled with the Internet of things (IoT), wireless sensor networks (WSNs) were quickly adopted by the healthcare industry, paving the way for pervasive healthcare technology.
These developments have recently come under scrutiny for the lack of adequate privacy and security measures safeguarding user data. Numerous potential solutions and countermeasures have been proposed recently with the aim of efficient utilization of resources and ensuring necessary data privacy and security. This chapter begins with an overview and various design considerations of existing WSN-enabled technologies and also draws the relation and differences between WSNs and IoT. This chapter further discusses the multiple challenges and problems faced in WSN-enabled IoT in the healthcare industry. Further, this chapter elaborates on countermeasures and potential solutions to ensure the security and privacy of WSN-based technologies. Finally, the chapter concludes with a discussion on the applications of WSNs and the IoT in the healthcare and medical industry.
