Flaws highlighted by the augmented reality game prove beneficial for IoT healthcare industry
Orange County, CA - July 26th 2016 - We were enjoying a family beach day when it happened. A dragonite, the final evolutionary form of Dratini, appeared before my cousin Crystal. She let out an excited yelp and we hurriedly gathered round to see her catch the fire breathing creature, before the unanticipated happened. In this critical moment, the screen froze, inducing a standstill. With resignation we had to accept that her encounter would end in calamity.
Since its release earlier this month, the game has helped some users with depression and anxiety, inspired Pokémon Go meetups, and encouraged people to exercise. Armed with a smartphone, the users are encouraged to traverse public spaces, like parks, using GPS technology and augmented reality to interact with their surroundings and “catch ‘em all.”
Crystal’s tragic experience with Pokémon Go is commonplace amongst trainers. In fact, it’s one of the reasons why the Brookings Institution refers to the smartphone app as a “primitive portal” into the future of health telecommunications and technology.
Even with these benefits, the exceedingly popular app comes with a share of significant drawbacks. Predicated on GPS tracking, the game drains battery life and data, the servers can and often fail, and the app has been known to freeze. Additionally, issues associated with data mining, privacy, and surveillance capitalism have garnered criticism of the game. Considering these aspects will help developers create secure, stable, and reliable tools for the health internet of things (IoT) technology.
By 2020, the 5G network is projected to support 30 billion devices across a range of markets. With the extent of its connectivity and computing power, 5G technology can easily enable the health internet of things. With information shared at 100 megabits per second, it facilitates instant transfering of high quality diagnostic images, allowing patients immediate access to specialists on the other side of the world.
However, reliance on 5G networks can be risky for healthcare providers if the network were to glitch or lag. Already a widespread problem for Pokémon Go users, such an occurrence in surgical settings could mean losing a life. Additionally, privacy has been a proven weakness for healthcare providers. With wholesale adoption of 5G networks and health IoT, such attacks may become more prevalent or dire.
According to Darrell West, Vice President and Director of Governance Studies at Brookings Institution, many changes still need to take place before health IoT may be fully realized, including investments in digital infrastructure, privacy protection, and reimbursement policy. If implemented, medical IoT has the propensity to provide health monitoring and medical aid to remote environments, as well as real time data collection and analysis. When applied to populations with limited mobility, like senior citizens and infants, this technology can become an instrumental asset to improving quality of life for individuals and their caretakers.
Looking to Pokémon Go to expose potential problems provides developers with the ability to properly assess what the technology is currently capable able to demonstrate. The highlighted weaknesses of privacy, server strength, and device battery, among others, must be addressed before the industry can benefit from such innovations. However, it’s an impressive feat when “being the very best, like no one ever was” promotes advances in administering medicine.
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Flaws highlighted by the augmented reality game prove beneficial for IoT healthcare industry Orange County, CA – July 26th 2016 – We were enjoying a family beach day when it happened. A dragonite, the final evolutionary form of Dratini, appeared before my cousin Crystal. She let out an excited yelp and we hurriedly gathered round to […]