Designing A Wearable Iot Device For Health Monitoring

Abstract

Supporting both mental and physical health is becoming more and more important for preserving independent living as the demographics of many societies continue to age and the number of people with chronic conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and obesity rises.  Technologies that have shown promise include sensing, remote health monitoring, and the ability to identify everyday activities.   Personalized medicine is one of the numerous fields where the Internet of Things (IoT) is generating tremendous interest from a technical perspective. In addition, the body area sensor network (BASN) of the Internet of Things model has been used extensively for monitoring health in a holistic manner. For example, ECG monitoring is often used as an important tool for the detection of heart diseases.   The main contribution of this study is the integration of the BASN framework into WISE, which allows monitoring of health in real-time.  It has a number of wearable sensors, such as heart rate, body temperature, and blood pressure sensors.   Additionally, the majority of wearable health monitoring devices that exist on the market today process, display, and relay information through a smartphone, which may interfere with normal use of the device.   In order to provide immediate access to real-time information, WISE can be replaced by a lightweight wearable LCD that allows direct data transmission from the BASN to the cloud.