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The recent pandemic has demanded a strong and smart healthcare system which can monitor the patients efficiently and handle the situation that arises from the outbreak of the disease. Smart healthcare cyber physical systems are the future systems as they integrate the physical and cyber world for efficient functioning of medical processes and treatment through external monitoring and control of patients, medical devices and equipment for continuous communication and information exchange of physiological data. Technologies like Internet of Things, Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence have given birth to smart cyber physical systems like Smart Healthcare Systems, Smart Homes, Smart Vehicular Systems and Smart Grid. Such systems are interdisciplinary in nature with multitude of technologies contributing to its effective working. This paper presents a case study on healthcare cyber physical systems presenting its characteristics, role of various technologies in its growth and major challenges in successful implementation of cyber physical medication systems.
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Smart City Healthcare Cyber Physical System: Characteristics,
Technologies andChallenges
RupaliVerma1
Accepted: 9 August 2021 / Published online: 26 August 2021
© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2021
Abstract
The recent pandemic has demanded a strong and smart healthcare system which can mon-
itor the patients efficiently and handle the situation that arises from the outbreak of the
disease. Smart healthcare cyber physical systems are the future systems as they integrate
the physical and cyber world for efficient functioning of medical processes and treatment
through external monitoring and control of patients, medical devices and equipment for
continuous communication and information exchange of physiological data. Technologies
like Internet of Things, Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence have given birth to
smart cyber physical systems like Smart Healthcare Systems, Smart Homes, Smart Vehicu-
lar Systems and Smart Grid. Such systems are interdisciplinary in nature with multitude
of technologies contributing to its effective working. This paper presents a case study on
healthcare cyber physical systems presenting its characteristics, role of various technolo-
gies in its growth and major challenges in successful implementation of cyber physical
medication systems.
Keywords Artificial intelligence· Healthcare cyber physical systems· Symbiotic cyber
physical systems· Security
1 Introduction
In the current pandemic, a strong healthcare system is a backbone for any smart city.
Effective and efficient monitoring of patients together with regular supply of necessary
medicines and treatment with aid of medical devices is possible when a system can meet
the demand and supply situation. Such a scenario is possible with a predictive mecha-
nism which forecasts the healthcare situation and works smartly for handling the medical
emergency.
Smart Healthcare Cyber Physical Systems (SHCPS) are the future systems capable
of supporting the medical fraternity in handling the pandemic situation effectively. Such
systems comprise of physical world of patients, medical devices and equipment; exter-
nally controlled and monitored medical treatment, connected with cyber world through
* Rupali Verma
rupali@pec.edu.in
1 Computer Science andEngineering, Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, India
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