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Research Paper | Information Technology | Iraq | Volume 6 Issue 4, April 2017

Family Health Follow-up Using: the Internet of Things (IoT)

Faeza Al-Mashhadani

Abstract: This project encourages families to set up and operate a specially designed, installed and operated by individual families in order to record important health parameters of their members, by assembling very economical hardware components easily available in the market, with almost free software. A central family database is constructed, using an ordinary desktop, laptop, or an iPad. Various members of the family group would feed information to the database through either a wi-fi set up or through the Internet irrespective of their geographic locations. Internet of Things (IoT) technology is utilized to gather health parameters of the members and send them to the central database, where these data are stored, analyzed, and results are sent to the concerned member in as clear way as possible, with illustrated graphs, if there is an abnormal situation. Naturally such important information must use the highest security masseurs. In this project it is proposed to use fingerprint identification.

Keywords: Internet of Things, eHealth, health sensors, medical, family healthcare

Edition: Volume 6 Issue 4, April 2017,

Pages: 1848 - 1851