Beatriz Sanz Baños The heart of the airports pumps with IoT The total number of travellers in air transport increases each year in a remarkable way, giving rise to an expanding panorama of trips, comings and goings, and visits to...
Beatriz Sanz Baños Your children’s toys are now connected Smartwatches, drones, lights controlled from our mobile or connected scooters are already a reality in our everyday life. Connectivity and data storage have been gradually taking over the consumer...
Beatriz Sanz Baños IoT to improve your Tourist Experience Would you like to enjoy a more personalized and efficient experience during your vacation? The arrival of IoT is already a real revolution in the tourism sector where this...
Beatriz Sanz Baños IoT and everything under control With the advent of Iot technology, big companies of hardware (components) and software (programs) have had to develop and adapt new products for these devices. The components become loT How far...
Connected Health, or IoT as your best lifelineBeatriz Sanz Baños 15 September, 2015 IoT started mainly as a way of automating industrial and mechanical processes that relied heavily on human intervention. Yet one of the biggest yearnings of mankind has always been to imitate and foresee human behaviour (from where robotics was born). Most recently we interact with computers that are so small we can literally wear them (being wearables the most advanced iteration yet of consumer electronics). Going to the doctor has always been something mainly human, carried out by highly qualified professionals that are deemed custodians of a great deal of society’s wellbeing. Technology was a sidekick assistant that provided insight to complicated diagnoses and help in health premises. Now that technological advances are pushing the limits further and further into what devices can do to aid and even replace doctors and nurses, the Science of Health has entered a new connected era. eHealth allows imagining a future where our society – inevitably aging due to plummeting birth rates – will be in the ‘expert hands’ of the IoT as much or even more than it will be in the hands of human doctors and nurses. ‘Expecting’ to be connected Expectant mothers have an unbelievable amount of information at their disposal that exponentially surpasses the data that their own mothers had when pregnant. The IoT in recent times has meshed with fashion designers to manufacture pregnancy fashionwear that is both well designed and picks up relevant information for pregnant mothers. Blake Uretsky, a Cornwell University undergraduate in Fiber Science and Apparel Design, has developed a fashion collection named the “B” Maternity Wearables. The garments have silver fibres that connect to a concealed sensor that monitors heart rate, body temperature, blood rate, and respiration levels relaying data to the smartphone. Uretsky combination of sleek design and practical technology have awarded her several industry prizes and grants to boost her career as a designer. Fitness wearables mix well with eHealth Uretsky’s work is an example of how universities are deeply involved in investigating and developing IoT solutions for the health industry. Spanish Universidad de Santiago’s CiTIUS Center is researching in the field of cardiology. They have developed technology to have always on technology tracking heart electrical activity and enable alerts of anomalies in real time. This technology is expected to be included in wearables and has received the recognition of the Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics publishing the research. Fitness wearable devices (especially pedometers and HRMs) have offered a solid testing ground for creating valid use case of how to pick up vitals in movement and store and retrieve relevant data over the Internet. A new generation of bracelets will transfer this gained knowledge to the eHealth industry. The complexity of adding eHealth data is to separate the relevant from the irrelevant for medical purposes. The moment someone walks into a medical centre or if the medical rapid response team receives a health alert from a patient’s wearable, these professionals should already have the patient’s relevant medical vitals (streamed over the Internet). This huge pool of data must be adequately treated in terms of security and privacy and must be accessible at the same time by other health centres the patient might visit. The eHealth Industry in figures 34 million healthcare wearables will be sold this year in an $867 million dollar market. Adoption rate and user enthusiasm exceeds other technologies and up to 80% of polled consumers believe “wearable technology can make healthcare more convenient” and most believe wearable tech has “improved their health and fitness” according to an infographic by Boston Technology. Fitness and Wellness as testing grounds for eHealth devices has blended both uses and this mix is here to stay. Sleep sensors, hearing aids, HRM Monitors, postural trainers, health patches, insulin pumps, PERS devices and even defibrillators will stop being limited to hospitals and health centers and become consumer electronics anyone can buy with a medical prescription in some cases (maybe provided by a Big Data backend instead of a ‘real’ doctor). ElevenPaths acquires Gesconsultor (Gesdatos), the leading Governance, Risk & Compliance platform SpainWho are you going to believe, me or your own eyes? The dilemma of managed security
Beatriz Sanz Baños IoT arrives inside the volcanoes Thanks to the installation of sensors inside the crater, the information collected in real time about temperature, humidity and atmospheric pressure, can be accessed. In this way, you have...
Beatriz Sanz Baños The Smart mining revolution The integration of IoT in smart mining manages to connect its employees with their work environment, providing different benefits that reduce the percentage of accidents. Since its inception, safety has...
Beatriz Sanz Baños The 6 key conclusions of the user experience of Internet of Things in Spain According to the study Things Matter 2019 the connected car is one of the engines of the IoT 87% of those who use IoT declare that they wouldn’t give up...
Beatriz Sanz Baños Efficient and responsible milk production We have a new example of how technology can help us form a better society in which the production and consumption of milk is carried out in a sustainable...
Beatriz Sanz Baños Smart gas stations and how to find them In the last few years, gas stations started to offer travelers a wide range of possibilities beyond mere refueling. This increases competition between service stations, which is forcing these...
Beatriz Sanz Baños The heart of the airports pumps with IoT The total number of travellers in air transport increases each year in a remarkable way, giving rise to an expanding panorama of trips, comings and goings, and visits to...