Analysis of Power Consumption Efficiency on Various IoT and Cloud-Based Wireless Health Monitoring Systems: A Survey

Abstract

Nowadays, various Wireless Health Monitoring Systems use Internet of Things to transmit patient’s data over Wireless Sensor Network and then the data is stored and processed via Cloud Computing,however, the use of different kind of Wireless Sensor on each system leads to powerefficiency problem. This paper analyses and compares the consumptionof poweron six Wireless Health Monitoring Systems, whichare invented to monitor the patient's condition and transfer the data using Wireless Sensor Network. Three different techniques are analyzed,namely GPRS/UMTS (used in one WHMS),Wi-Fi(used in one WHMS), and Bluetooth(used in fourWHMS). This paper concludes thatthe systems that use Bluetooth as their transmission medium are more effective in reducing powerconsumption than the other systems that use GPRS/UMTS or Wi-Fi.