Healthcare Solutions Using Wearable Devices
A. Siva Sakthi, Abinaya Inbamani, Ramya Elango, S. Niveda, M. Preethi, R. Rajalakshmi, Veerapandiyan Veerasamy · 2022
Innovative solutions to the healthcare technology are essential to ensure prevention of disease and maintaining of good health. The wearable devices ensure the same and help in decision making at the earliest. The quality of human life has been improved after the wearable devices came into the picture. The wearable devices can be in the form of wrist watches, shoes, eyeglasses, ear-rings, gloves and even in the form of textiles. The physical activities monitored by the wearable devices like fit bands, activity trackers, multi-angle video recorders are becoming a part of human life and adding solutions to the healthcare problems. Once the identification of the problem is done, the physiological data is transferred to the healthcare personal for remote monitoring. With this data, the healthcare providers can come to a decision, which is intimated to the end-user and helps in early diagnosis of the diseases. Some wearable devices like fitness band, smart shoe etc. helps in monitoring or tracking the activity of the sports person for better performance. Therefore, monitoring of data like mental conditions, physical activities and fall prevention through smart devices is main focus of this chapter. Security is one of the major concerns from users&s; point of view. Hence, patients&s; data should be kept confidential and it has to be secured from the third party. This in turn reduces the acceptance rate of the end-user. Furthermore, the inventory management has been a better option in recent days for healthcare problems but interoperability of the devices is a major concern.