Remote Parkinson's disease monitoring system: from smartphone to cloud platform

Abstract

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a slowly progressive disorder that affects movement, muscle control, and balance. The earlier treatment can prevent the disease from developing and to prolongate the diseases prodromal phase. In this context, home monitoring services are potentially powerful tools for remote diagnosis and can improve healthcare services. Tremor is the most common symptom of a PD disorder and it has several advantages for continuous PD symptoms monitoring. The developing of solution based on smartphone sensors that allow remote monitoring of the monitored user is present. The connection between the smartphone application and cloud platform for smartphone sensors data transmission for early tremor symptoms detection is developed. It includesdeveloping of configuration of smartphone application for sensor data transmission and developing of configuration of a cloud platform for tremor symptoms monitoring. The active tests were developed to capture a motor disorder, that indicates PD symptom such as tremor. Initial trials of the developing demonstrated that the monitoring system has the ability to real-time data acquisition and transmission using smartphone sensors and cloud storage. The connection settings developed for the system proved to be efficient when sensor data transmitted from the smartphone to cloud storage. The period of time required to transfer data to the cloud equal to the period of time less than one second.