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IoMT
10 entries across the knowledge base
Sensors & devicesHow a physiological signal becomes a number in a chart — and why every step of that journey is a place the number can be wrong while looking perfectly normal.article · 7 min · foundationRobotics fundamentalsSense, plan, act — the loop every robot runs. What the terms mean, what makes medical robotics different from factory robotics, and why 'autonomous surgery' is further away than the demos suggest.article · 6 min · foundationMQTTThe lightweight publish/subscribe protocol that moves device telemetry — the lingua franca of medical IoT.concept · 6 min · foundationIEEE 11073The standards family for how medical devices describe themselves and their measurements — the device-side counterpart to FHIR.concept · 6 min · practitionerEdge computingProcessing data where it is produced — at the bedside, gateway, or device — instead of round-tripping everything to the cloud.concept · 6 min · foundationDigital twinsA continuously updated virtual copy of a physical thing — a device, a ward, eventually a patient — you can query and simulate against.concept · 6 min · foundationCoAPHTTP's tiny cousin for constrained devices — request/response over UDP when even MQTT is too heavy.concept · 5 min · foundationBluetooth Low Energy & GATTHow your pulse oximeter actually talks to a phone: BLE radio plus the GATT data model of services and characteristics.concept · 6 min · foundationAssistive & surgical roboticsWhere medical robots actually are today: teleoperated surgical instruments and assistive devices — plus an honest look at what the evidence says versus what the marketing does.article · 7 min · foundation