Implementation and Evaluation of a Ubiquitous Health Monitoring System
Akira Yamazaki, Akio Kôyama, Junpei Arai, Leonard Barolli · 2009
In recent years, because of the birthrate declining and the elderly peoplepsilas population growing, the lack of doctors and the increase of the medical cost is becoming a big problem. One of solution for this problem is to prevent the humans from diseases in order to reduce the medical cost (e.g. by using the hospital as few times as possible). In this research, we have developed a wearable vital sensor which can be used anywhere without disrupting the everyday life of the patient. Furthermore, we have implemented a ubiquitous health monitoring system, which can confirm and share the sensor information received from a cellular phone attached to the wearable vital sensor immediately through the browser. This system can also send emergency report based on sensor information to the family and the doctor. In addition, we verified the system effectiveness by evaluating the implemented system.