Hospitals and doctors aren’t something that patients look forward to. It is an industry that has been plagued with traditional service practices and even technology.

Quantified and data based healthcare is going to be the future of the industry because health that is measurable can be better improved.

Given the introduction for IoT, we can together cause changes that make doctor-patient interactions personal and efficient again.

Most hospitals or locations where patient-doctor interactions occur use IoT because of the cost reduction. With specialists using remote health monitoring facilities – they are able to provide treatment in more real-time.

IoT has a plethora of benefits such as more accurate treatment results, disease control within the hospital, medicine control and many more. Within prevention, it has become a primary area of focus as health care expenses are projected to grow unmanageable in the future.

When hospitals use IoT, they are guaranteed more hygienic environments. When patients use IoT, they are able to transmit information in real-time to the doctors When doctors use IoT, they are able to diagnose situations with more care and accuracy, most importantly, speed.

Some of the use cases of IoT in healthcare are

• Disease Prevention – This enables doctors to check in on patients regularly, ensuring their health is under control, in regular intervals.
• Healthcare Management – This is managing the end-to-end consumer experience. From the time of check-in till check-out. Managing it with IoT gives us far deeper insights and data which we can use to understand our customers better.
• Patient Administration and Billing – This is specifically to do with the entire billing process. Billing usually takes time and IoT speeds up the process!

IoT connects your health with the future. It has the ability to align towards the shared goals of better patient health, lower healthcare costs and improved doctor-patient experience for all stakeholders.

IoT within retail is a much-needed addition to tackle tedious, traditional tasks. IoT is set to modernize retail by being an inventory management system, a payment gateway/management system and finally, making retail more customer obsessed.

IoT works within the retail environment by segregating a function and then figuring out how to optimize for productivity. Take for example supply chain, this task currently involves a lot of physical stock counting. Smart shelf systems contain three elements: an RFID tag, an RFID reader, and an antenna. Smart shelves are capable of automatically monitoring inventory and send managers alerts

When IoT is integrated, items picked from shelves will be automatically recorded, deducted from inventory and if stock is low – reordered. It is full-cycle.

Smart shelves take an important part in giving intelligent insights into customer behavior to the store manager and/or owner.

Next, think the shopping experience – everyone loves personalised discounts! In this instance, if a product is looked for online, in-store IoT, which is synched with the user’s loyalty account, will send them a personal in-store discount! This will encourage them to visit the store more often, and by connecting online with offline – filling in the lost money that has been going missing for years.

With the final step in the process, checkout, IoT can enable customers to just walk through a gate where the codes are scanned. Once scanned, the money auto deducts from their wallet – leading to a zero-human check out process. This also makes the entire population in-store more controlled and offers a massive uptick in the in out time of customers.