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This paper presents experimental results of a stable time-varying IIR narrow multi-band-stop filter. The design and stability check procedures have been shown. The experimental hardware used to conduct the measurement of the ECG was presented. The concept of the time-varying coefficients was used in order to reduce the transient time of the filtering structure. The advantages of the proposed methodology...
The ICT4Life Open Source framework contains libraries for acquiring and processing data from different sensors, machine learning algorithms for activity recognition, as well as fusion methods of multiple modalities either at an early or at a late stage. The main purpose of the introduced system is to enable an easy customization of patients' monitoring using different types of sensors. Furthermore,...
This paper deals with detection and analysis of hand activity recognition for rehabilitation purposes. The research attempts to analyze human hand movements analysis based that can aid medical institution in providing a better hand angle measurements for some identified movements. Three axis accelerometer sensors which are placed on particular positons on hand are used to observe the hand movements...
The objective of this project is to create a novel device to monitor and report back with comprehensive physiological status and alerts of hazards encountered by the firefighter. The device is a band-aid like device that would be attached to the firefighter's skin positioned on the upper arm. The device would monitor the firefighter's physiological health including heart rate and blood oxygen level,...
An important aspect of designing information displays to support monitoring and decision-making in critical care is the representation of change of patient data over time. We systematically reviewed articles to identify novel alternatives to tabular and single variable plots of values over time to convey information about change in multiple related variables. Following screening of 5,119 articles,...
The analysis of multimodal data collected by innovative imaging sensors, Internet of Things (IoT) devices and user interactions, can provide smart and automatic distant monitoring of patients and reveal valuable insights for early detection and/or prevention of events related to their health situation. In this paper, we present a platform called ICT4LIFE which starting from low-level data capturing...
Health is the level of useful and metabolic potency of a living organism. In humans, it is the power of people or communities to adapt and self-manage once facing physical, mental, psychological and social changes. Keeping track of the health standing of the patient reception may be a troublesome task. Specially maturity patients ought to be sporadically monitored and their adored ones got to learn...
This paper described the development of an NFC tag-sensing platform integrated a neonatal incubator to measure the temperature of premature newborns (NB) by its mattress or pillow. The tag created uses the ISO/IEC 14443-B protocol to establish the communication, sending the current value of body temperature through its Pseudo-Unique Proximity Integrated Circuit Card Identifier (PUPI). As result, this...
This paper discusses on-going research in the ways Global Software Engineering (GSE) teams collaborate for a range of software development tasks. The paper focuses on providing the means for observing and understanding GSE team member collaboration including team coordination and member communication. Initially the paper provides the background on social and human issues relating to GSE collaboration...
Ballistocardiography (BCG) is a non-invasive method for measuring the reaction force of the human body to the ejection of blood at each cardiac cycle. It is now being the subject of renewed research interest due to recent technological advancement in the field of sensors. In this paper, we summarize our work on BCG with optical fiber sensors for various applications in the past 6 years. These include...
Ballistocardiography (BCG) is a non-invasive method for measuring the reaction force of the human body to the ejection of blood at each cardiac cycle. It is now being the subject of renewed research interest due to recent technological advancement in the field of sensors. In this paper, we summarize our work on BCG with optical fiber sensors for various applications in the past 6 years. These include...
Vital signs (including breath and heartbeat) monitoring is a key tool in healthcare. Current monitors need invasive electronic sensors attached to user's body, which is inconvenient and uncomfortable. We demonstrate photonic smart health monitoring system based on phase-sensitive optical fiber interferometers. Users simply lie/sleep on a sensor mat embedded with optical fiber interferometers. Breath...
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...
Proposals and some implementations of Internet of Things (IoT) systems for healthcare are described. Implications of current European Union legislation, the new General Data Protection Regulation, for the security and reliability of healthcare IoT systems and for the privacy of users of these systems are presented. Analytics of healthcare IoT data for the requirements of evidence based healthcare...
Mobile apps have been developed for monitoring health and wellness for various reasons such as self-management of chronic diseases, weight loss and maintain healthy life style. As consumers, patients are flooded with new mobile apps and are unaware if they are suitable for desired health and wellness outcomes. As much as a clinician would like to support a patient centered approach and promote mobile...
After briefly discussing the loT and Cyber physical device main features, the application of wearable devices was examined. The constrains of this class of application are in the greatest interest of the researchers and enterprises for the interested in many possible uses of it. The Apulia Region has issued a call for proposals for “Innonetwork sostegno alle attività di R&S per lo sviluppo di...
To elevate the imperativeness and reinforce the fitness of elders, assisting a home care system can be an admittance that provides comprehensive nursing and monitoring them in the regular interim. In order to provide an interactive service management platform to the elders a smart environment of numerous sensors are clubbed together to establish an intuitive platform that can control the home appliances...
This paper covers the development of a fetal heart monitor (fHM) on an ARM Cortex-M3 based platform, and its application in extracting fetal heart rate (fHR) non-invasively from the maternal abdomen. The fHM is a low-power, inexpensive ambulatory device connected to smart-phones via Bluetooth. This monitor uses active-electrodes for primary signal-conditioning, and has a digital back end for running...
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