Cyber Physical Systems and Smart Homes in Healthcare: Current State and Challenges

Cyber Physical Systems is an emerging paradigm which has gained particular attention in research and development. CPS has transformed the way we interact with the physical world by introducing smart communication between the physical world and its cyber components. As the requirements of today are increasing, a diverse range of applications has made its way in the healthcare domain. This paper provides a survey of noteworthy applications in the healthcare area, particularly smart homes, including state-of-the-art applications for medication intake systems and medical status monitoring. The success of every system is hindered by challenges that need to be addressed. Some of these challenges for CPS include security, patient information privacy, heterogeneous data management, real time patient monitoring, interoperability between different systems, system usability and energy consumption.