Miniaturized and Portable Home-Based Vital Sign Monitor Design with Android Mobile Application

Abstract

With the rapid evolution and fast growth of health care technology since the new millennium, it not only results in longer life span in worldwide but also increases complicated and critical health state at the same time. Due to the rising of world population aging, it escalates the number of older adults compared to the whole population. According to the United Nations reports, this ratio is expected to rise twofold between 2007 and 2050, which will reach two billions by 2050 [1]. As aging issues becomes one of the serious concerns, the demand of healthcare treatment at hospital as well as at home increase cautiously. However, the main disadvantages of long term and full-time health care need aid of workforce and financial initiatives [2]. In addition to that, the exacerbated health problem and clinical state are normally the result of vital signs measurement variation [3]. As a result, continuous and reliable vital signs monitoring primarily to critical patie nts become extremely crucial. Unfortunately, it is a very tedious yet costly journey to stay at the hospital for the purpose of post medical treatment and

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