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Quality of health is greatly impacted by the quality of measurement, hence active monitoring of patient's vitals status greatly affects recovery and improves prognosis. In this paper, we proposed an IoT health based monitoring system which…
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In this paper, we propose a vital data analysis platform which resolves existing problems to utilize vital data for real-time actions. Recently, IoT technologies have been progressed but in the healthcare area, real-time actions based on…
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