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With an increase in the population of older adults, the number of cases with dementia also increases. People living with dementia (PLwD) exhibit various behavioral and psychological experiences; agitation and aggression being the most common. Aggressive patients with dementia can harm themselves, other patients and the staff. In the past, researchers have used actigraphy to detect incidences of agitation...
As the number of devices (things) connected to the Internet (Internet of things: IoT) is growing, achieving robust security and privacy (S&P) is becoming increasingly challenging. With the heavy use of medical things (MT), the S&P in the medical domain poses a serious issue that continues to grow. Due to the criticality and sensitivity of the data in the healthcare domain, ensuring...
The coordination of resources offered by multiple cloud providers to the end users aims to improve the Quality of Service. However, such systems exhibit a higher complexity and heterogeneity, which need to be handled correctly. In a large network of sensors provided by an Intercloud, the role of the monitoring processes is to identify existing issues and further report them for reconfiguration. Faulty...
Reports on new and innovative sensor technologies for the health care market.The health-care and medical applications sensor market is projected to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 13.1% between 2016 and 2022, according to a report issued in March 2017 by the research firm Frost & Sullivan. A key factor driving sensor sales is the growing availability of consumer and clinical devices...
Objectives: Post hospitalization care of a patient treated for critical illness, for instance cardiac arrest has been regarded as imperative. Nevertheless, it has become inevitable to skip follow-ups by the patients themselves. Method: This paper aims at designing a system which continuously monitors the health of the patient despite the patient being busy with his routine. An application is developed...
Today, we find many children with difficulties in dealing with physical and mental tasks. Technology promotes welfare of the differently abled children along with bringing social justice to them on humanitarian grounds. Assistive devices with sensor technology are the humanitarian technologies which are essentially required for the differently abled children. They can have a better life if they are...
This paper describes a semantic modeling of the sensor data streams. In order to fulfill the requirements of the Wireless Sensor Networks and Wireless Body Area Networks data streams, for real-time vital signs monitoring, we designed a flexible architecture based on Multi-agent system. The system is able to collect and build sensor data streams according to the proposed semantic model. Different data...
Monitoring the health of a residual limb in prosthesis is key to detect early signs of tissue injury, and could improve patient quality of life. However, monitoring at skin level could induce possible discomfort and irritation, making the skin susceptible for breakdown. The use of non-invasive sensor technologies within the flexible liner of the prosthetic device can alleviate these issues. The rehabilitation...
Health monitoring systems have rapidly evolved recently, and smart systems have been proposed to monitor patient current health conditions, in our proposed and implemented system, we focus on monitoring the patient's blood pressure, and his body temperature. Based on last decade statistics of medical records, death rates due to hypertensive heart disease, shows that the blood pressure is a crucial...
Clinical techniques for monitoring livestock health are insufficient, as they provide only sporadic information and required too much resource investment in terms of time and veterinary expertise. The animal health monitoring system that is allocating hardware which will mount on the animal body, at present there are no such systems which will provide on current status of the animal. At present to...
In remote health care Body Area Networks (BAN) are very popular but demand low energy consumption due to very constrained resources. For it several protocols, such as ZigBee, BlueTooth, WiFi etc, have been proposed but non has delivered the optimum results. These systems also demand vast interoperability among devices. Recently a propriety protocol ANT+ provides such features and strengthens the goals...
Internet of Things based health care systems play a significant role in Information and Communication Technologies and has contribution in development of medical information systems. The developing of IoT-based health care systems must ensure and increase the safety of patients, the quality of life and other health care activities. The tracking, tracing and monitoring of patients and health care actors...
In this paper, we proposes a GSM based non-invasive wearable physiological parameters monitoring system. The system can be used to monitor parameters such as temperature and heart rate of a human subject. This system is worn on the waist by an at-risk person. The person is monitored using several sensors and data is sent wirelessly. The device detects if a person is medically distressed and sends...
This paper proposed a prototype that analyses various Bio-medical parameters like temperature and blood pressure and heartbeat obtained from the sensors used & with the help of a MSP430- microcontroller, all the parameters obtained are displayed on an LCD screen. Based on the parameters obtained the patient is continuously monitored and if in case of any critical mishap when the parameters go...
The use of digital technologies in the administration of healthcare is growing at a rapid rate. However, such platforms are often expensive. As people are living longer, the strain placed on hospitals is increasing. It is evident that a user-centric approach is needed, which aims to prevent illness before a hospital visit is required. As such, with the levels of obesity rising, preventing this illness...
Patient monitoring system are gaining importance due to the emergence of cardiac diseases which demands for monitoring of health status of patient. Therefore a system has been developed to monitor physiological parameters such as temperature, ECG, heart rate of patient. To detect distress condition a fall detection sensor has been incorporated. Theses parameters are acquired and processed using PIC16F877A...
The design and development of a Zigbee smart noninvasive wearable physiological parameters monitoring device has been developed and reported in this paper. The system can be used to monitor physiological parameters, such as temperature and heart rate, of a human subject. The system consists of an electronic device which is worn on the wrist and finger, by an at-risk person. Using several sensors to...
Several advances have been done in wireless body area networks for bio-monitoring, as confirmed by the fine tuning of ad-hoc standards for networking, controlling and managing a distributed sensor platform around the human body. Efficient wireless networks are becoming commercially available for several applications. In spite of that, sets of “invisible” sensors for monitoring bio-signals are still...
This paper presents a low power wireless acquisition module for use within wearable health monitoring systems and Ambient Assisted Living applications. The acquisition module provides continuous monitoring of the user's electrocardiogram (ECG) and activity, as well as the local temperature at the module. The module is placed on the chest of the user, and its wearability is achieved due to its fabrication...
CHRONIOUS is an highly innovative Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) research Initiative that aspires to implement its vision for ubiquitous health and lifestyle monitoring. The 17 European project partners are strictly working together since February 2008 to realize and open platform to manage and monitor elderly patients with chronic diseases and many difficulties to reach hospital...
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