Assistive Technology for Elders: Wireless Intelligent Healthcare Gadget

Megalingam, Rajesh Kannan; Radhakrishnan, Vineeth; Jacob, Denny Chakko; Unnikrishnan, Deepak Krishnan Melepurath; Sudhakaran, Akhil Kakkanattu

doi:10.1109/ghtc.2011.94

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“…In many of these articles, a data fusion technique is used to integrate multiple data sources into meaningful information. The other 28 articles investigate only on-body sensors [ 109 , 110 , 111 , 112 , 113 , 114 , 115 , 116 , 117 , 120 , 121 , 122 , 123 , 124 , 125 , 126 , 128 , 129 , 130 , 131 , 132 , 133 , 134 , 135 , 136 , 141 , 142 ]. Moreover, half of the articles employ mobile devices such as smart phones or PDAs as base stations.…”

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“…Moreover, half of the articles employ mobile devices such as smart phones or PDAs as base stations. 16 articles out of 35 articles used classic Bluetooth as the main wireless communication technology [ 109 , 110 , 111 , 112 , 113 , 122 , 123 , 128 , 130 , 131 , 133 , 138 , 139 , 141 , 142 , 143 ]. Therefore, classic Bluetooth is considered as the most popular technology among the included articles.…”

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A Survey on Wireless Body Area Networks for eHealthcare Systems in Residential Environments

Ghamari

Janko

Sherratt

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Sensors

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Current progress in wearable and implanted health monitoring technologies has strong potential to alter the future of healthcare services by enabling ubiquitous monitoring of patients. A typical health monitoring system consists of a network of wearable or implanted sensors that constantly monitor physiological parameters. Collected data are relayed using existing wireless communication protocols to a base station for additional processing. This article provides researchers with information to compare the existing low-power communication technologies that can potentially support the rapid development and deployment of WBAN systems, and mainly focuses on remote monitoring of elderly or chronically ill patients in residential environments.

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A Survey on Wireless Body Area Networks for eHealthcare Systems in Residential Environments

Ghamari

Janko

Sherratt

et al. 2016

Sensors

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134

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“…Angius and Raffo present a glove that continuously monitors a person's heart rate, and automatically calls a doctor if some risk situation emerges [39]. In the same way, another system calls a doctor if a glove detects an inadequate value of heart rate, oxygen in the blood, skin temperature or pressure of elderly people [40]. Another glove [41] has lights and a camera at fingertips to ease manual tasks related to health care and other delicate applications.…”

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A Wearable Mobile Sensor Platform to Assist Fruit Grading

Aroca

Gomes

Dantas

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Sensors

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Wearable computing is a form of ubiquitous computing that offers flexible and useful tools for users. Specifically, glove-based systems have been used in the last 30 years in a variety of applications, but mostly focusing on sensing people's attributes, such as finger bending and heart rate. In contrast, we propose in this work a novel flexible and reconfigurable instrumentation platform in the form of a glove, which can be used to analyze and measure attributes of fruits by just pointing or touching them with the proposed glove. An architecture for such a platform is designed and its application for intuitive fruit grading is also presented, including experimental results for several fruits.

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“…RF or bluetooth, and sends SMS. Previous work [77] [78] shows example systems in which SMS messages are sent to concerned medical experts and/or to relatives by a GSM modem attached to a local PC when monitored vital signs exceed a threshold. SMS has also been used in telemonitoring for transmitting monitored health data which does not need high bandwidth.…”

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Remote Health Monitoring Using Online Social Media

Khorakhun¹,

Bhatti²

2014

ICST Transactions on Ubiquitous Environments

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Remote monitoring is an essential part of future mHealth systems for the delivery of personal and pervasive healthcare, especially to allow the collection of personal bio-data outside clinical environments. Yet, by its very nature, it presents considerable challenges: it will be a highly distributed task, requiring collection of bio-data for a myriad of cources, to be marshalled at the clinical site via secure communication channels. To address these challenges, we propose the use of an online social media platform (OSMP) as a key component of a near-future remote health monitoring system. By exploiting existing infrastructure, initial costs can be reduced, at the same time as allowing fast and flexible application development. An OSMP would have user benefits also: patients and healthcare professionals can be presented with familiar interfaces, while application developers can work with a set of technologies that are widely used and well-known. Internet-based access also helps to provide wide-ranging connectivity for mobile applications. Additionally, the use of a social media context allows existing social interactions within the healthcare regime to be modelled within a carer network, working in harmony with, and providing support for, existing relationships and interactions between patients and healthcare professionals. We focus on the use of an OSMP to enable two primitive functions which we consider essential for mHealth, and on which larger personal healthcare services could be built: remote health monitoring of personal bio-data, and an alert system for asynchronous notifications. We analyse the general requirements in a carer network for these two primitive functions, in terms of four different viewpoints within the carer network: the patient, the doctor in charge, a professional carer, and a family member (or friend) of the patient. We discuss the suitability of OSMPs in terms of functionality, performance, security & privacy, as well as the potential for cost reduction.

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Assistive Technology for Elders: Wireless Intelligent Healthcare Gadget

Cited by 29 publications

References 2 publications

A Survey on Wireless Body Area Networks for eHealthcare Systems in Residential Environments

A Survey on Wireless Body Area Networks for eHealthcare Systems in Residential Environments

A Wearable Mobile Sensor Platform to Assist Fruit Grading

Remote Health Monitoring Using Online Social Media

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