A Wearable Medical Sensor for Provisional Healthcare
This addresses the need for non-invasive, long-term health monitoring in telemedicine, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing sensor technologies.
The paper tackled the problem of continuous health monitoring by developing a contact-less wearable sensor system that measures heartbeat and respiration rates, achieving results that show potential for telemedicine applications.
Thispaper presents the design and realization of a context-aware wireless health monitoring system for recording the heartbeat (HR) and respiration (RR) rate based on an indirect measurement approach. The system consists of a contact-less medical sensor as well as a communication infrastructure for handling the transmission and reception of the measured results. The contact-less sensor includes a highly sensitive tri-axial accelerometer, an accurate temperature and air pressure sensor that enable one to inspect patients' health condition by continuously monitoring of two critical signs related to the cardiorespiratory system. The developed system can also be utilized in performing a number of long-term inspection on the heart and lungs while measuring the HR and RR values in addition to calculating the HR and RR ratio, which is denoted by HRR. The obtained results show the potential of the developed system for versatile monitoring applications applied to telemedicine