TY - JOUR
T1 - Remote patient monitoring systems
T2 - Applications, architecture, and challenges
AU - Boikanyo, Kegomoditswe
AU - Zungeru, Adamu Murtala
AU - Sigweni, Boyce
AU - Yahya, Abid
AU - Lebekwe, Caspar
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ORDI of the Botswana International University of Science and Technology, Remote Patient Monitoring Systems (RPMSs) are considered one of the most critical research fields, as it deals with human lives. These solutions have gained prominence due to the emergence of highly infectious diseases. Due to this, the world is also adopting IoT-based approaches to remotely monitor patients using real-time detection systems to mitigate further spread. However, several challenges and flaws have been encountered with patient monitoring solutions. These include mobility, the use of heterogeneous networks, and standardization of RPMS, automation, and Quality of Services. Studying the literature and analysing the data, focusing on the applications, structures, techniques, and challenges faced, led to proper and detailed analysis and classification of RPMS. We would like to give thanks to Botswana International University of Science and Technology for providing the necessary infrastructures and support for completing this research. I would like to give many thanks to the aforementioned supervisor for the guidance and patience during the process of this research.
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PY - 2023/7
Y1 - 2023/7
N2 - Research in Remote Patient Monitoring Systems (RPMS) is considered to be one of the most crucial fields since it deals with human lives. The rise in usage of RPMS has increased since the emergence of the pandemic. Even though there is a rise in these systems, there are some challenges, such as mobility, heterogeneous networks, standardization of RPMSs, automation, and Quality of Service (QoS). Our discussion focuses on RPMS systems for physiological parameter monitoring in the areas of their applications, architecture, and challenges. Thus, an in-depth review of RPMS and the analysis of these data are performed in order to understand where the current RPMS literature stands. The literature shows that research in these RPMS is concentrated on two or more of the following areas: applications, architecture, methodologies, and their performance. It appears that prior to 2020, researchers focused on nearly all aspects of RPMS until the pandemic. Then there was a shift in RPMS research to focus more on the applications and architectures of these systems. As a result, more companies are developing mobile RPMS. In this paper, we present a detailed of various existing RPMS with areas of focus on their application, architecture, technology applied, and challenges faced. We further provided a comparative and statistical analysis of the existing literature, and, finally, an overview of Quality of Service (QoS) as one challenge of RPMS is provided. The surveyed QoS requirements based on traffic type, data quality, device quality and network metrics are provided, with the aim of providing the current trend for researchers and industries to adapt to the best approach in the design of quality-aware RMPS. We then conclude the work by providing future work, which, when adopted, will brighten the future of RPMS deployment.
AB - Research in Remote Patient Monitoring Systems (RPMS) is considered to be one of the most crucial fields since it deals with human lives. The rise in usage of RPMS has increased since the emergence of the pandemic. Even though there is a rise in these systems, there are some challenges, such as mobility, heterogeneous networks, standardization of RPMSs, automation, and Quality of Service (QoS). Our discussion focuses on RPMS systems for physiological parameter monitoring in the areas of their applications, architecture, and challenges. Thus, an in-depth review of RPMS and the analysis of these data are performed in order to understand where the current RPMS literature stands. The literature shows that research in these RPMS is concentrated on two or more of the following areas: applications, architecture, methodologies, and their performance. It appears that prior to 2020, researchers focused on nearly all aspects of RPMS until the pandemic. Then there was a shift in RPMS research to focus more on the applications and architectures of these systems. As a result, more companies are developing mobile RPMS. In this paper, we present a detailed of various existing RPMS with areas of focus on their application, architecture, technology applied, and challenges faced. We further provided a comparative and statistical analysis of the existing literature, and, finally, an overview of Quality of Service (QoS) as one challenge of RPMS is provided. The surveyed QoS requirements based on traffic type, data quality, device quality and network metrics are provided, with the aim of providing the current trend for researchers and industries to adapt to the best approach in the design of quality-aware RMPS. We then conclude the work by providing future work, which, when adopted, will brighten the future of RPMS deployment.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.sciaf.2023.e01638
DO - 10.1016/j.sciaf.2023.e01638
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85150191872
SN - 2468-2276
VL - 20
JO - Scientific African
JF - Scientific African
M1 - e01638
ER -