Smart and pervasive ICU based-IoT for improving intensive health care

Setting up a smart and pervasive environment is one of the current challenges being investigated in several research topics. Among the panoply of applications enabled by the Internet of Things (IoT), smart and connected health care is a particularly important one. Networked sensors, either worn on the body or embedded in our living environments, make possible the gathering of rich information indicative of our physical and mental health. Design a smart intensive care units is an original idea and a recent research topic which is tackled in this work. First, in this paper, we highlight the opportunities and challenges for IoT in realizing this vision of the future of health care and then, it is devoted to attainment of new patient monitoring intelligent system in ICUs in order to improve medical care service performance. We offer through this work, an hybrid architecture over a single platform for a visual patient monitoring system for Automatic Detection of risk Situations and Alert (ADSA) using a multi-camera system and collaborative medical sensors network.