Abstract
In this paper, the recent advances of sensors applied in healthcare environments are presented. Based on the function and operation of modern health and wellness measurement and monitoring and mHealth solutions, a variety of sensors are described with their features and applications. Further improvements and future trend are pointed out and discussed.
Highlights
The world’s population age 65 and older is growing by an unprecedented rate
The paper is organized as: Section 2 presents a variety of sensors applied in modern health and wellness measurement, assistive technologies, and mHealth; Section 3 concludes the paper
A number of medical research efforts have been based on mHealth to monitor and study the deployment of sensor-based technologies in the course of patient diagnosis and treatments, including: aged population health monitoring, calorie in-take monitoring, treating patients with diabetes, blood-pressure monitoring, treating cardiac patients, and blood oxygen level monitoring
Summary
The world’s population age 65 and older is growing by an unprecedented rate. An aging population with a longer life expectancy results in a larger population of fragile elderly, the chronically ill and those requiring rehabilitation [1]. In the two decades there will be a significant increase in the elderly population and this in turn will result in a much greater need for effective assistive devices [3]. Recent developments in ambient assistive living technologies have demonstrated the feasibility of using ambient sensors in supporting independent living [7]. Unlike wearable sensors, they tend to have more battery and processing capacities, but have limited use in capturing physiological information or in multiple occupancy dwellings. The existence of GPS, location information and time tags can make mobile devices smarter and useful for healthcare services, through bio-sensor integration [8] [11]. The paper is organized as: Section 2 presents a variety of sensors applied in modern health and wellness measurement, assistive technologies, and mHealth; Section 3 concludes the paper
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