LONG-TERM MONITORING OF VITAL SIGNS FOR MOBILE PATIENTS

Antonio Coronato, Alessandro Testa

2012

Abstract

Hospitalization is a very expensive and resource consuming alternative for those patients that have to be continuously monitored. The design and realization of health monitoring applications has attracted the interest of large communities both from industry and academia. Currently many cardiac diseases are unpredictable; remote and continuous monitoring for reliable detection of these problems becomes essentially useful especially for elderly patients. In the paper it is described a novel long-term wearable vital signs monitoring system which can real-time measure physiological signs such as ecg and spo2 (saturation of arterial oxygen) equipped with bluetooth connection. We propose a system architecture for pervasive healthcare that will open up new opportunities for continuous and reliable monitoring of assisted and independent-living residents by means of a set of services already included in Uranus (a service oriented middleware architecture for smart environments which provides basic functions for the rapid and easy integration of different kinds of biomedical sensors) and new added services to achieve a higher dependability level. A final analysis is shown to comprise the advantages of this monitoring system.

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Coronato A. and Testa A. (2012). LONG-TERM MONITORING OF VITAL SIGNS FOR MOBILE PATIENTS . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS, ISBN 978-989-8565-00-6, pages 15-20. DOI: 10.5220/0003812500150020


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Coronato A. and Testa A. (2012). LONG-TERM MONITORING OF VITAL SIGNS FOR MOBILE PATIENTS . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS, ISBN 978-989-8565-00-6, pages 15-20. DOI: 10.5220/0003812500150020


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@conference{peccs12,
author={Antonio Coronato and Alessandro Testa},
title={LONG-TERM MONITORING OF VITAL SIGNS FOR MOBILE PATIENTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,},
year={2012},
pages={15-20},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003812500150020},
isbn={978-989-8565-00-6},
}


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@conference{peccs12,
author={Antonio Coronato and Alessandro Testa},
title={LONG-TERM MONITORING OF VITAL SIGNS FOR MOBILE PATIENTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,},
year={2012},
pages={15-20},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003812500150020},
isbn={978-989-8565-00-6},
}


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JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,
TI - LONG-TERM MONITORING OF VITAL SIGNS FOR MOBILE PATIENTS
SN - 978-989-8565-00-6
AU - Coronato A.
AU - Testa A.
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SP - 15
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DO - 10.5220/0003812500150020


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,
TI - LONG-TERM MONITORING OF VITAL SIGNS FOR MOBILE PATIENTS
SN - 978-989-8565-00-6
AU - Coronato A.
AU - Testa A.
PY - 2012
SP - 15
EP - 20
DO - 10.5220/0003812500150020