PERS & Telehealth: Converging to help senior citizens
As per the Institute on Aging, the percentage of older adults among the US population is steadily increasing. Senior citizens are expected to account for 20% of the US population by 2030, up from 13% in 2010. Among the older adults, those living beyond the age of 85 constitute the fastest growing age group.
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IoT Waste Management | Renewing the Face of Waste
Waste management is becoming a global concern these days. The world generates 2.01 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste annually, with at least 33% of it not managed in an environmentally safe manner, per The World Bank report.
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Rapid Prototyping for IoT Use Cases
You have a great IoT Use Case in mind for your business - but you are stuck because you do not have the “thing” (or device / sensor) to establish its feasibility. And it will cost an arm and a leg to build a few variants that can be used for prototyping. Not to mention a few months to get you to the starting block.
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Is Telemedicine Reducing Healthcare Costs?
You’ve probably heard this a lot – telemedicine is working wonders in reducing the cost of healthcare. But are those claims true?
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Telehealth Monitoring: Working Wonders in Chronic Disease Management
Recent studies by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have shown how almost 6 in 10 adults in the country have at least one chronic disease while 4 in 10 adults are suffering from two or more.
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Is Telemedicine the Future of Healthcare?
Telemedicine as a term was coined in the 1970s. Also referred to as Telehealth or e-health, the service entails allowing healthcare providers to examine, diagnose, and offer relevant treatment to patients using the telecommunications technology.
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Impact of IoT in Agriculture
From time immemorial, agriculture has been the key to sustaining civilization. Farming has come a long way from not-so-efficient manual methods of growing crops to automated large scale cultivation that combines the use of machinery with various soil treatment techniques and high yield seeds.
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IoT and 5G: Driving Health Care Transformations
Addressing the health care transformation with 5G, Ericsson predicts a significant revenue opportunity of $76 billion for health care operators. Well, before we actually count on IoT plus 5G merger as one of the most vital revolutions in the healthcare industry, it is important to understand what actually 5G is all about.
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Role of Smartphones in the IoT Era
As the name suggest, the Internet of Things (IoT) is all about connecting ‘things’ with the ‘internet’. Once connected, the ‘thing’ becomes an IoT device (commonly referred to as a ‘smart’ thing).
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IoT 2020: Where are we headed?
As per Gartner's estimate, internet-connected things will outnumber humans from 4 to 1 by 2020, creating new dynamics for marketing, sales and customer service.
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