Advancements in Healthcare Internet of Things (H-IoT) systems have created new opportunities and solutions for healthcare services, including the remote treatment and monitoring of patients. In addition, the security and privacy of personal health data must be ensured during data transfer. Security breaches in H-IoT can have serious safety and legal implications. This comprehensive review provides insights about secured data accession by employing cryptographic platforms such as H-IoT in big data, H-IoT in blockchain, H-IoT in machine learning and deep learning, H-IoT in edge computing, and H-IoT in software-defined networks. With this information, this paper reveals solutions to mitigate threats caused by different kinds of attacks. The prevailing challenges in H-IoT systems, including security and scalability challenges, real-time operating challenges, resource constraints, latency, and power consumption challenges are also addressed. We also discuss in detail the current trends in H-IoT, such as remote patient monitoring and predictive analytics. Additionally, we have explored future prospects, such as leveraging health data for informed strategic planning. A critical analysis performed by highlighting the prevailing limitations in H-IoT systems is also presented. This paper will hopefully provide future researchers with in-depth insights into the selection of appropriate cryptographic measures to adopt an energy-efficient and resource-optimized healthcare system.

Wireless Sensors Networks (WSN) is the self-configured Wireless Ad hoc Networks (WANET) for Internet of Things (IoT) which consists of a huge measure of resource-restrained Sensor Nodes (SN). In WSN, the key parameters are effectual energy utilization and security. The adversary could send false information because of the Malicious Nodes’ (MNs’) presence. Thus, to shun security threats, it is vital to find and isolate those MNs. Consequently, this work proffered a solution for detecting MNs in WSN utilizing every SN's parameters. This work not only regards the security but also rendered energy-efficient data transmission (DT) by means of choosing the Cluster Head (CH) centred on the sensor's residual energy. The Improved Deep Convolutional Neural Network (IDCNN) identifies the MN and then isolates them into the malicious list box in the Malicious Nodes Detection (MND) phase. In the energy-efficient DT phase, the Extended K-Means ( EKM) algorithm clusters the Trusted Nodes (TN), and the t-Distribution based Satin Bowerbird Optimization (t-DSBO) algorithm selects an individual CH for each cluster centred on those nodes’ residual energy. The data of that cluster is transmitted to the Base Station (BS) through the CH. The t-DSBO selects an alternate CH if the current CH loses its energy. The proposed techniques effectively detect the MN and render energy-efficient DT, which is experimentally proved by comparing it with existing techniques.

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is an arising trend that provides a significant amount of efficient and effective services for patients as well as healthcare professionals for the treatment of disparate diseases. The IoMT has numerous benefits; however, the security issue still persists as a challenge. The lack of security awareness among novice IoMT users and the risk of several intermediary attacks for accessing health information severely endanger the use of IoMT. In this article, rooted elliptic curve cryptography with Vigenère cipher (RECC-VC) centered security amelioration on the IoMT is proposed for enhancing security. First, this work utilizes the exponential K-anonymity algorithm for privacy preservation. Second, a new improved Elman neural network (IENN) is proposed for analyzing the sensitivity level of data. The Gaussian mutated chimp optimization is employed for weight updating in this IENN. Finally, a novel RECC-VC is proposed for securely uploading the data to the cloud server. Additionally, data are stored in the cloud server using blockchain technology. In experimental analysis, the proposed methodologies attain better results than the prevailing methods. The proposed IENN model achieves an accuracy of 96% and is validated against state-of-the-art methods. Also, the proposed RECC-VC attains 98% of the security level.

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) seeks more attention in attaining enormous opportunities in the field of Industry 4.0. But there exist severe challenges related to data privacy and security when processing the automatic and practical data collection and monitoring over industrial applications in IIoT. Traditional user authentication strategies in IIoT are affected by single factor authentication, which leads to poor adaptability along with the increasing users count and different user categories. For addressing such issue, this paper aims to implement the privacy preservation model in IIoT using the advancements of artificial intelligent techniques. The two major stages of the designed system are the sanitization and restoration of IIoT data. Data sanitization hides the sensitive information in IIoT for preventing it from leakage of information. Moreover, the designed sanitization procedure performs the optimal key generation by a new Grasshopper–Black Hole Optimization (G–BHO) algorithm. A multi-objective function involving the parameters like degree of modification, hiding rate, correlation coefficient between the actual data and restored data, and information preservation rate was derived and utilized for generating optimal key. The simulation result establishes the dominance of the proposed model over other state-of the-art models in terms of various performance metrics. In respect of privacy preservation, the proposed G–BHO algorithm has achieved 1%, 15.2%, 12.6%, and 1% enhanced result than JA, GWO, GOA, and BHO, respectively.

Cloud computing offers dynamic, scalable, and virtualized computing resources to end users over the internet. Load balancing is crucial for efficient resource use, distributing workloads across multiple resources to prevent overloading. Load balancing is crucial for resource utilization and processing time reduction, but traditional algorithms are often stuck at local maxima, leading to unequal allocation and performance decline. A metaheuristic based algorithm is proposed to dynamically adjust load distribution, ensuring resilience and sensitivity to changing workloads while managing energy consumption. This research presents a Rock Hyrax-based load balancing algorithm that addresses local maxima and power efficiency issues using QoS parameters. The algorithm’s performance is evaluated qualitatively and statistically, considering both static and dynamic modes of jobs and virtual machines. Comparing it with existing scheduling algorithms, the algorithm reduces makespan by 10%–15% and total energy consumption in data centers by 8%–13%. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of the Rock Hyrax-based load balancing algorithm in improving performance and energy efficiency in data centers, highlighting its potential impact on optimizing resource allocation and enhancing overall system performance.

The use of IoT technology is rapidly increasing in healthcare development and smart healthcare system for fitness programs, monitoring, data analysis, etc. To improve the efficiency of monitoring, various studies have been conducted in this field to achieve improved precision. The architecture proposed herein is based on IoT integrated with a cloud system in which power absorption and accuracy are major concerns. We discuss and analyze development in this domain to improve the performance of IoT systems related to health care. Standards of communication for IoT data transmission and reception can help to understand the exact power absorption in different devices to achieve improved performance for healthcare development. We also systematically analyze the use of IoT in healthcare systems using cloud features, as well as the performance and limitations of IoT in this field. Furthermore, we discuss the design of an IoT system for efficient monitoring of various healthcare issues in elderly people and limitations of an existing system in terms of resources, power absorption and security when implemented in different devices as per requirements. Blood pressure and heartbeat monitoring in pregnant women are examples of high-intensity applications of NB-IoT (narrowband IoT), technology that supports widespread communication with a very low data cost and minimum processing complexity and battery lifespan. This article also focuses on analysis of the performance of narrowband IoT in terms of delay and throughput using single- and multinode approaches. We performed analysis using the message queuing telemetry transport protocol (MQTTP), which was found to be efficient compared to the limited application protocol (LAP) in sending information from sensors.