Development of Wearable Systems for Ubiquitous Healthcare Service Provisioning

TL;DR

This paper presents a wearable biomedical sensor system designed to provide continuous, remote healthcare monitoring for the elderly, addressing accessibility, cost, and quality challenges in healthcare services.

Contribution

It introduces a prototype wearable system that monitors vital signs and location, transmitting data for analysis to support ubiquitous healthcare services.

Findings

Successful development of a prototype wearable health monitoring system

Effective remote data transmission via GPRS/Internet

Potential to improve elderly healthcare accessibility

Abstract

This paper reports on the development of a wearable system using wireless biomedical sensors for ubiquitous healthcare service provisioning. The prototype system is developed to address current healthcare challenges such as increasing cost of services, inability to access diverse services, low quality services and increasing population of elderly as experienced globally. The biomedical sensors proactively collect physiological data of remote patients to recommend diagnostic services. The prototype system is designed to monitor oxygen saturation level (SpO2), Heart Rate (HR), activity and location of the elderly. Physiological data collected are uploaded to a Health Server (HS) via GPRS/Internet for analysis.