Medical Industry using IPv6 BioSensors by Kaushik Das |
Introduction IPv6 is the successor protocol to the currently used Internet Protocol version 4 or the IPv4 that suffers from an acute shortage of the available address space for allocation to the exponentially increasing network devices both in the wired and the wireless domain. |
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A biosensor may be defined as a device that helps in the monitoring of a biological change. Biosensors provide important information that is used in a variety of ways. In this way, biosensors act as critical information gathering tools in the increasingly used biological information systems. In the earlier days, Information systems were used in isolation from the communication technologies. However, a successful marriage between the information systems and the communication technologies has given birth to a new term called the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) and Internet is a prime example of the same.
MAn increasing use of the information systems in the medical domain has led to a corresponding rise in the demand for network solutions so that the critical medical information can be shared in a seamless manner over a number of different platforms. Penetration of the medical domain by the information technology tools has resulted in an increasing usage of biosensors to monitor the critical vital signs in real time. Such information systems have varied uses. For example, medical biosensors allow the healthcare professionals to keep a continuous check on the vital parameters of a patient within a geographical area that may span from a hospital room to an entire city or even the entire globe. This requires a robust network infrastructure that may allow the sensory information to reach the destination on a continuous basis in real time thereby alerting the healthcare professionals against any medical exigency. It allows the healthcare professionals to take proactive measures rather than following a reactionary approach in extending critical healthcare facilities.
The various data processing tools undertake multidimensional analysis of the huge amounts of data that is collected using the IPv6 biosensors. The healthcare professionals commonly use the data visualization techniques to spot any underlying medical condition that may require intervention by the experts. Some of the obvious advantages offered by the IPv6 biosensors used in the medical industry are:
We can conclude that IPv6 biosensors will play a critical role in offering monitoring and diagnostic facilities to the common man in an increasingly networked world. |
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