Abstract
Technological advances on the development of mobile devices, medical sensors, and wireless communication systems support a new generation of unobtrusive, portable, and ubiquitous health monitoring systems for continuous patient assessment and more personalized health care. There exist a growing number of mobile apps in the health domain; however, little contribution has been specifically provided, so far, to operate this kind of apps with wearable physiological sensors. The PhysioDroid, presented in this paper, provides a personalized means to remotely monitor and evaluate users' conditions. The PhysioDroid system provides ubiquitous and continuous vital signs analysis, such as electrocardiogram, heart rate, respiration rate, skin temperature, and body motion, intended to help empower patients and improve clinical understanding. The PhysioDroid is composed of a wearable monitoring device and an Android app providing gathering, storage, and processing features for the physiological sensor data. The versatility of the developed app allows its use for both average users and specialists, and the reduced cost of the PhysioDroid puts it at the reach of most people. Two exemplary use cases for health assessment and sports training are presented to illustrate the capabilities of the PhysioDroid. Next technical steps include generalization to other mobile platforms and health monitoring devices.
Highlights
Healthcare is a pending matter that challenges worldwide [1]
We present the PhysioDroid system, which combines both commercial wearable health devices and mobile devices to provide continuous and personalized patient physiological monitoring
OPENi will allow the easy development of new applications that use the PhysioDroid data stored in the users Cloudlet and any combination of independent cloud-based services made available through the OPENi application programming interface (API) Platform, as well as the development of processing and reasoning functionalities on the PhysioDroid data available on the Cloudlet
Summary
Healthcare is a pending matter that challenges worldwide [1]. The severe socioeconomic situation suffered by an important part of developed countries is providing greater pressure to find more cost-effective solutions to the provision of health and social care. Interaction through social media stands out as a more “human approach” to the individual seek of online health information This idea takes advantage of the collectivity to support patients and family caregivers in their feelings of loneliness, reassure them in their behavior and daily efforts, and validate adopted medications, devices, and health services. These innovative tools are truly interesting to promote a more personalized and independent healthcare, a crucial aspect that may not be approached through web technologies is corporeal monitoring. Main conclusions and future steps are presented in the last section of this paper
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