An IoT System for Remote Health Monitoring in Elderly Adults Through a Wearable Device and Mobile Application.

Luis A Durán-Vega,Raymundo Buenrostro-Mariscal,Juan Contreras-Castillo,Pedro C Santana-Mancilla,Osval A Montesinos-López,Luis E Anido-Rifón,Miguel A García-Ruiz,Fermín Estrada-González

doi:10.3390/geriatrics4020034

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https://doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics4020034

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Abstract

With the increase in global life expectancy and the advance of technology, the creation of age-friendly environments is a priority in the design of new products for elderly people healthcare. This paper presents a proposal for a real-time health monitoring system of older adults living in geriatric residences. This system was developed to help caregivers to have a better control in monitoring the health of their patients and have closer communication with their patients’ family members. To validate the feasibility and effectiveness of this proposal, a prototype was built, using a biometric bracelet connected to a mobile application, which allows real-time visualization of all the information generated by the sensors (heart rate, body temperature, and blood oxygenation) in the bracelet. Using these data, caregivers can make decisions about the health status of their patients. The evaluation found that the users perceived the system to be easy to learn and use, providing initial evidence that our proposal could improve the quality of the adult’s healthcare.

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In recent years, the number of scenarios in which we use the Internet has been increasing, evolving from being static to being social, transactional, and mobile [1]
This study describes the design, development, and usability assessment of Abuelómetro, a technological platform created by the authors, whose objective is focused on providing a support tool to the personnel responsible for the care of elderly people in nursing homes, in order to monitor, in real time, the health status of their patients and keep in constant communication with family members, through the Internet of Things (IoT) and a wearable device
A fully functional prototype of the mobile application Abuelómetro and the middleware to interface with the application programming interface (API) was developed to communicate with the WolkAbout IoT Platform

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The number of scenarios in which we use the Internet has been increasing, evolving from being static to being social, transactional, and mobile [1]. The Internet continues its evolution, and we talk about connecting “things” (objects/devices) to this network which were not previously designed to have this connectivity but are currently communicating with each other This evolution has created its own concept: The Internet of Things (IoT), defined as the interconnection to the Internet of any daily use device (or among them) anywhere and anytime, ranging from cell phones, coffee machines, washing machines, and clocks to machine components, such as the engine of an airplane [2]. An estimated 21 billion devices on the planet were connected

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