Empowering People with a User-Friendly Wearable Platform for Unobtrusive Monitoring of Vital Physiological Parameters
Elderly people feel vulnerable especially after they are dismissed from health care facilities and return home. The purpose of this work was to alleviate this sense of vulnerability and empower these people by giving them the opportunity to unobtrusively record their vital physiological parameters....
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| author | Maria Krizea John Gialelis Grigoris Protopsaltis Christos Mountzouris Gerasimos Theodorou |
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| description | Elderly people feel vulnerable especially after they are dismissed from health care facilities and return home. The purpose of this work was to alleviate this sense of vulnerability and empower these people by giving them the opportunity to unobtrusively record their vital physiological parameters. Bearing in mind all the parameters involved, we developed a user-friendly wrist-wearable device combined with a web-based application, to adequately address this need. The proposed compilation obtains the photoplethysmogram (PPG) from the subject’s wrist and simultaneously extracts, in real time, the physiological parameters of heart rate (HR), blood oxygen saturation (SpO<sub>2</sub>) and respiratory rate (RR), based on algorithms embedded on the wearable device. The described process is conducted solely within the device, favoring the optimal use of the available resources. The aggregated data are transmitted via Wi-Fi to a cloud environment and stored in a database. A corresponding web-based application serves as a visualization and analytics tool, allowing the individuals to catch a glimpse of their physiological parameters on a screen and share their digital information with health professionals who can perform further processing and obtain valuable health information. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cbea7831f74d486ba3a1320f3088c66b2023-12-03T12:12:42ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202022-07-012214522610.3390/s22145226Empowering People with a User-Friendly Wearable Platform for Unobtrusive Monitoring of Vital Physiological ParametersMaria Krizea0John Gialelis1Grigoris Protopsaltis2Christos Mountzouris3Gerasimos Theodorou4Applied Electronics Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, GreeceApplied Electronics Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, GreeceApplied Electronics Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, GreeceApplied Electronics Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, GreeceApplied Electronics Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, GreeceElderly people feel vulnerable especially after they are dismissed from health care facilities and return home. The purpose of this work was to alleviate this sense of vulnerability and empower these people by giving them the opportunity to unobtrusively record their vital physiological parameters. Bearing in mind all the parameters involved, we developed a user-friendly wrist-wearable device combined with a web-based application, to adequately address this need. The proposed compilation obtains the photoplethysmogram (PPG) from the subject’s wrist and simultaneously extracts, in real time, the physiological parameters of heart rate (HR), blood oxygen saturation (SpO<sub>2</sub>) and respiratory rate (RR), based on algorithms embedded on the wearable device. The described process is conducted solely within the device, favoring the optimal use of the available resources. The aggregated data are transmitted via Wi-Fi to a cloud environment and stored in a database. A corresponding web-based application serves as a visualization and analytics tool, allowing the individuals to catch a glimpse of their physiological parameters on a screen and share their digital information with health professionals who can perform further processing and obtain valuable health information.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/14/5226wrist-wearable devicePPG processingphysiological parametersweb-based applicationsdata analysis |
| spellingShingle | Maria Krizea John Gialelis Grigoris Protopsaltis Christos Mountzouris Gerasimos Theodorou Empowering People with a User-Friendly Wearable Platform for Unobtrusive Monitoring of Vital Physiological Parameters Sensors wrist-wearable device PPG processing physiological parameters web-based applications data analysis |
| title | Empowering People with a User-Friendly Wearable Platform for Unobtrusive Monitoring of Vital Physiological Parameters |
| title_full | Empowering People with a User-Friendly Wearable Platform for Unobtrusive Monitoring of Vital Physiological Parameters |
| title_fullStr | Empowering People with a User-Friendly Wearable Platform for Unobtrusive Monitoring of Vital Physiological Parameters |
| title_full_unstemmed | Empowering People with a User-Friendly Wearable Platform for Unobtrusive Monitoring of Vital Physiological Parameters |
| title_short | Empowering People with a User-Friendly Wearable Platform for Unobtrusive Monitoring of Vital Physiological Parameters |
| title_sort | empowering people with a user friendly wearable platform for unobtrusive monitoring of vital physiological parameters |
| topic | wrist-wearable device PPG processing physiological parameters web-based applications data analysis |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/14/5226 |
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