IoT: A Parallel Platform to Advance Drug Delivery

IoT:

Internet of things (IoT) is a cutting edge device through which data collection, manipulation, and action are being taken. IoT helps in improving drug efficacy, detecting errors, the limit of detection, regulatory compliance, improving R&D productivity, reducing the manpower, and effective cost.

Organ-on a chip and chip-in a pill is the recent advancement of this technology.

Organ-on a chip:

It is a polymer which contains microfluidic channels lined by living cells. These administrated microchip helps to understand the regulatory functions of living human organs including lung, brain, kidney, skin, spleen, liver, heart, gut, bone, etc. Organ-on a chip plays a key role to accelerate the development of a new drug for which the systematic treatment is paradoxical. It helps to improve development and productivity, reducing data processing, reporting, and analysis time.

Cons:

* Surface effects dominate over volume effect.

* Little mixing during laminar flow.

* Not portable.

Chip-in a pill:

It is an ingestible pill used for in-vivo imaging to understand the inner functions and drug effects on it. these pills transmit the data to a wearable device then it probed by healthcare exports for disease diagnosis. This procedure also helps to improve drug efficacy with reduced time and provides a platform to understand the problem more profoundly.