IoT is a concept that has the versatility to be applied to
almost any application. For this specific experiment, a medical
monitoring application was chosen due to the immediate and
significant benefits that could potentially result. Medical
sensors worn by patients stream measured data into a local
patient gateway, which in turn transfers this data to the central
server. That server, in turn, can provide access to the data to
caregivers, either by having caregivers retrieve/pull the
patients’ information from it, or by having the server push
information to the caregiver, for example, when critical
thresholds are breached (Figure 1). This IoT application will
potentially increase the amount of patients that a single
caregiver can monitor effectively.