IoT Applications for Healthcare Systems

Dr. Rahul Kher received B. E (Electronics) from Sardar Patel University in 1997, M.Tech (Electrical Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee in 2006 and Ph.D (Electronics & Communication Engineering) from Sardar Patel University in 2014. He has a teaching and research experience of over 21 years. His research interests include Biomedical Signal and Image Processing, Medical image analysis and Healthcare monitoring systems. He has published four books and more than 70 research papers in various international journals and conferences. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and was the founder Secretary of Signal Processing Society (SPS) Chapter of IEEE Gujarat Section during 2013-2015. He has been on the Reviewer Panel/ TPC member of many International Journals and conferences including the IEEE Communication Society Magazine, Journal of Biomedical Signal Processing and Control (Elsevier), Journal of Computer Networks (Elsevier), International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (Inderscience), Biomedical Engineering: Application, Basis and Communication (World Scientific), 1st Global IoT Summit (GIoTS 2017), Geneva, Switzerland, 3rd Global IoT Innovation Forum, Barcelona, Spain, 3rd Annual Int. Conf. on Wireless Comm. and Sensor Networks (WCSN 2016), 2016 IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), Virginia, US and many more. He has visited Japan, USA and UK for various academic purposes.
Dr. Chirag N. Paunwala is working as a Professor, EC Department, and Dean R&D, Sarvajanik College of Engineering and Technology, Surat. His research interests include Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Deep Learning, and Medical Signal Processing. He has published more than 60 research publications in reputed conferences, Journals and Book Chapters. He is the first recipient of the Meritorious Service Award by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, USA in 2017. He was Chair, SPS Chapter, Gujarat Section for year 2015 and 2016. He was Chapter Chair Coordinator for IEEE, SPS, USA for year 2019. Currently He is volunteering as a secretary for IEEE Gujarat Section. He is a reviewer for many reputed journals like IEEE, Elsevier and Springer. He served as Technical Program Chair for Signal and Image processing track for reputed INDICON 2019.

 Dr. Falgun Thakkar obtained Ph.D. from National Institute of Technology Allahabad in February 2018. He graduated from Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya (BVM) in 2004 and completed his Masters of Engineering in Communication from GCET, S P University V V Nagar in 2010. Dr. Falgun has published more than 25 research articles in various International and National Journals and Conferences. He has served as reviewer of many international journals and conferences of repute. He has published a book in the domain of Compressed Sensing based ECG Signal Compression, His area of interests includes Antenna design, HF transmission line, Microwave Engineering, Wavelet based image and signal processing, Medical Image Security, Compressed Sensing and optimization techniques like PSO and GA. He has guided many Masters' Students in their dissertation as well as more than 20 projects of B.E. Students. At present he is guiding six PhD students in the domain of microwave antenna design and medical image processing.

Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) Applications and Research Issues in Healthcare Monitoring.- Role of Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence in COVID-19 Pandemic Monitoring.- Design of LinkIt ONE based IoT system with middleware architecture for healthcare monitoring.- FPGA Implementation of Multivariate Support Vector Regression for Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Estimation using IoMT framework.- IoT-A New Paradigm for Healthcare Monitoring.- e-Healthcare Challenges_Scenario in Rural Regions of South Asia.- Computation Offloading for Smart Healthcare Applications.- Change and Periodic Events: Relevance to the Pandemic.