The Internet of Things (IoT) is a complete ecosystem encompassing various communication technologies, sensors, hardware, and software. IoT cutting-edge technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have enhanced the traditional healthcare system considerably. The conventional healthcare system faces many challenges, including avoidable long wait times, high costs, a conventional method of payment, unnecessary long travel to medical centers, and mandatory periodic doctor visits. A Smart healthcare system, Internet of Things (IoT), and AI are arguably the best-suited tailor-made solutions for all the flaws related to traditional healthcare systems. The primary goal of this study is to determine the impact of IoT, AI, various communication technologies, sensor networks, and disease detection/diagnosis in Cardiac healthcare through a systematic analysis of scholarly articles. Hence, a total of 104 fundamental studies are analyzed for the research questions purposefully defined for this systematic study. The review results show that deep learning emerges as a promising technology along with the combination of IoT in the domain of E-Cardiac care with enhanced accuracy and real-time clinical monitoring. This study also pins down the key benefits and significant challenges for E-Cardiology in the domains of IoT and AI. It further identifies the gaps and future research directions related to E-Cardiology, monitoring various Cardiac parameters, and diagnosis patterns.

The term “Big Data” refers to a large volume of information usually in terabytes and petabytes. It includes both structured and unstructured data. Unstructured data is conventionally text-heavy, but may also contain data such as facts, dates and numbers. To use this unstructured information effectively, it needs to be processed and organized. Taxonomy is considered as a powerful way of organizing the information. For automatic taxonomy generation, various techniques have been proposed in the past. However, the substantial nature of big data presently crosses the processing abilities of traditional techniques. Thus, to meet this challenge an extensible and scalable technique is required to potentially accelerate the process of taxonomy generation and its evolution upon arrival of new data, hence catering large amount of unstructured big data. This paper proposes a technique for both the taxonomy generation and evolution on Apache Spark infrastructure. The proposed technique is evaluated on a text dataset of a computing domain. The evaluation results show that the technique presented in this paper outperformed the existing techniques in terms of time and quality metrics. The time and quality-based evaluation showed that the use of MapReduce environment has resolved the scalability issues of current taxonomy generation and evolution process.