This news report was 1st published on our sister Site, The Internet Of All Things.
The Internet of Bodies is No: 2 on the newly released 20 tech trends that will shape 2020 released by Telenor today.
The new report said:
Today and even more so starting next year, we are connecting our bodies through a host of monitors that measure blood pressure, blood oxygen, activity, heart rate, arrhythmia and even snoring. And in 2020 we will see the first applications that go beyond just monitoring and into actual auto-interventions.
One such example, said Telenor, was the insulin pump. A large community of patients and health advocates, “We are Not Waiting”, have pushed the frontier for a long time, and in 2020, the world will see the first commercial systems closing the loop between reading blood sugar and delivering insulin to the body, said the report. Biohacks such as Elon Musk’s Neuralink startup are still far from commercialisation, but there are diseases and conditions that are costly and care intensive where the “IoB” will have great potential.
