Abstract
As the age profile of many societies continues to increase, in addition to the increasing population of people affected by chronic diseases, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and so on, supporting health, both mentally and physically, is of increasing importance if independent living is to be maintained. Sensing, remote health monitoring, and, ultimately, recognising activities of daily living have been an promising solution. From a technical perspective, the Internet of Things (IoT) is gaining a rapidly growing attention in many disciplines, especially in personalised healthcare. Meanwhile, body area sensor network (BASN) under the IoT framework has been widely applied for ubiquitous health monitoring, for example. ECG monitoring has been commonly adopted as vital approach for diagnosing heart disease. The main contribution of this paper include the following: firstly, this paper presents a novel system, the WISE (Wearable IoT-cloud-baSed hEalth monitoring system), for real-time personal health monitoring. WISE adopts the BASN (body area sensor network) framework in the support of real-time health monitoring. Several wearable sensors have been embedded, including the heartbeat, body temperature, and the blood pressure sensors. Secondly, the majority of existing wearable health monitoring systems requisite a smart phone as data processing, visualisation, and transmission gateway, which will indeed impact the normal daily use of the smart phone. Whilst in WISE, data gathered from the BASN are directly transmitted to the cloud, and a lightweight wearable LCD can be embedded as an alternative solution for quick view of the real-time data.
Highlights
The size and composition of the world population has changed over the last couple of decades, and these trends are projected to continue
We presented a framework of the Wearable Internet of Things (IoT)-cloud-baSed hEalth monitoring system (WISE)
3.1 The design of the WISE system This paper presents a framework of the Wearable IoTcloud-baSed hEalth monitoring system (WISE), which adopts a number of interconnected wearable sensors to observe the health condition of the subject
Summary
The size and composition of the world population has changed over the last couple of decades, and these trends are projected to continue Such demographic trends have significant implications for almost all areas of the society, in health and healthcare. Life expectancy has increased dramatically, especially in the more affluent nations, which is set to be celebrated and should be viewed as an opportunity for people to live longer and better This requires substantial improvement in both the healthcare service and the living environment, as older people generally require more healthcare than their younger counterparts. Older people are more likely to suffer from chronic disease as part of the natural ageing process
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