PhysioDroid: an app for physiological data monitoring.
Oresti Baños, Miguel Damas, Peter Gloessekoetter, Andreas Hermes, Hendrik Mende, H. Pomares, Ignacio Rojas · IWBBIO · 2013
The ever progressing technological advances on the development of mobile phones, medical sensors and wireless communication systems are supporting a new generation of unobtrusive, portable and ubiquitous health monitoring systems for a continuous patient assessment and a more personalized health care. In this paper we present PhysioDroid, an Android based application operated together with a wearable monitor capable of measuring vital information such as electrocardiogram (ECG), heart rate (HR), respiration rate (BR), skin temperature and motion directly from the human body. The application provides gathering, storage and processing features for the body sensor data. Likewise, the system works as a gateway enabling data transfer to a remote server which may be used for further processing and analysis. PhysioDroid also implements visualization of physiological information mainly intended to trigger alerts and emergency calls when abnormalities or risk situations are detected.