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LoRa-Based Medical IoT System Architecture and Testbed

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Medical IoT (MIoT) or Internet of Medical Things is a new concept aimed to improve e-health services using interconnected medical devices. Medical applications are classified as critical in the context of Internet of Things and, with the new paradigm MIoT, one must analyse and improve every component of IoT architecture to develop reliable platforms. This paper reviews the current progress of Internet of Medical Things and Low Power Wide Area Networks, presenting the advantages and the drawbacks of nowadays systems and technologies. Moreover, this paper proposes new Medical IoT architectures based on LoRa technology dedicated to homecare and hospital services.

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This work has been funded by UEFISCDI through the MultiMonD2 Project No. 33PCCDI/2018 and partially supported by UEFISCDI through the ToR-SIM Project No. 5Sol/2017.

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Drăgulinescu, A.M.C., Manea, A.F., Fratu, O. et al. LoRa-Based Medical IoT System Architecture and Testbed. Wireless Pers Commun 126, 25–47 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-020-07235-z

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