Exploring the Landscape of Ubiquitous In-home Health Monitoring: A Comprehensive Survey

TL;DR

This comprehensive survey reviews the current state of in-home health monitoring systems, covering technologies, components, applications, challenges, and future research directions to enhance remote health management.

Contribution

It provides an extensive overview of existing systems, identifies key components and challenges, and offers eight future research recommendations for developing effective in-home health monitoring.

Findings

Identification of main components of in-home health systems

Analysis of current technologies and their integration

Highlighting challenges and proposing future research directions

Abstract

Ubiquitous in-home health monitoring systems have become popular in recent years due to the rise of digital health technologies and the growing demand for remote health monitoring. These systems enable individuals to increase their independence by allowing them to monitor their health from the home and by allowing more control over their well-being. In this study, we perform a comprehensive survey on this topic by reviewing a large number of literature in the area. We investigate these systems from various aspects, namely sensing technologies, communication technologies, intelligent and computing systems, and application areas. Specifically, we provide an overview of in-home health monitoring systems and identify their main components. We then present each component and discuss its role within in-home health monitoring systems. In addition, we provide an overview of the practical use of ubiquitous technologies in the home for health monitoring. Finally, we identify the main challenges and limitations based on the existing literature and provide eight recommendations for potential future research directions toward the development of in-home health monitoring systems. We conclude that despite extensive research on various components needed for the development of effective in-home health monitoring systems, the development of effective in-home health monitoring systems still requires further investigation.