Abstract
Objectives. Considering the advantages of the wearable systems (such as continuous monitoring, ease of installation, and significant efficiency), they can also be used to monitor patients in emergency situations and, particularly, in the ambulance. This study is aimed at specifying, modeling, and evaluating a wearable smart blanket system for monitoring vital signs in emergency circumstances. Method. At first, all the smart blanket system requirements were specified using an author‐made questionnaire, and the essential requirements were specified in the software requirements specification format. Such an anticipated smart wearable blanket is then modeled by Unified Modeling Language. Finally, the most important quality attributes (i.e., the nonfunctional requirements) of the proposed wearable smart blanket system were evaluated using a descriptive‐analytical study. Results. Evaluation results of the proposed system show that using the smart blanket system could not only provide the required functionalities, but also, it improved the important quality attributes such as response time and delay in sending data packets (14% improvement), accuracy, energy consumption (18% improvement), reliability and fault‐tolerance, and performance (28% improvement) in contrast to the compared related work. Conclusion. Using a smart wearable blanket in an ambulance instead of such in a huge ambulance cabin would be beneficial in terms of time and space, ease of use, and maybe cost while providing the required functionalities besides having proper quality attributes.
Highlights
Considering that many diseases and disabilities currently require continuous monitoring, constant care and monitoring of patients for timely intervention is an urgent need
We may allude to the significant features and functional advantages of the wearable blanket system, such as ease and speed of installation, precision measurement and monitoring, low volume, and obtaining and using the blanket at home [5]
Several articles have been written in the field of wearable systems
Summary
Considering that many diseases and disabilities currently require continuous monitoring, constant care and monitoring of patients for timely intervention is an urgent need. Smart systems and advanced tools have grown dramatically to monitor patients and control their conditions [2]. The ability of these smart systems to store and transfer data across different health care sectors (including telemedicine) is important. With the development of computer and communication sciences, wearable sensors to monitor health-related vital biological parameters have been considered. Eom et al introduced a wearable smart blanket system called Smart Blanket in Japan It was a collection of wireless body sensing units that record and transfer vital parameters only by being placed on the body [16]. The BASUMA project was designed primarily to make progress in the treatment of patients with obstructive pulmonary diseases [17]
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