The IoT appears to be part of a fundamental shift in healthcare, one that takes us from the traditional volume-based model to a new value-based approach. By embracing the IoT, smarter hospitals can optimize buildings for patient comfort, while also increasing staff efficiency and effectiveness. Recent developments demonstrate that healthcare facilities are at the forefront of the smart building movement. Above all, healthcare facilities are about healing but “it has been acknowledged that stress caused by hospitalization and hospital care may hinder patient recovery and in some cases, it may cause potentially life-threatening psychological changes. Hospitalization and subsequent treatment and medical care constitute a period of anxiety for the patients and a severe anxiety-causing situation,” explains a comparative study on patient experiences by Evangelia Kotrotsiou et al. “It is, therefore, imperative that nurses and all other healthcare professionals maintain a channel of continuous communication with the patients, so that stressful factors causing anxiety to patients […]