Non-contact Home Health Monitoring Based on Low-Cost High-Performance Accelerometers

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoce Feng ◽  
Ming Dong ◽  
Philip Levy ◽  
Yong Xu
Keyword(s):  
Health Monitoring ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Home Health ◽  
Home Health Monitoring

scholarly journals Basic technology and proper usage of home health monitoring devices

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-14
Author(s):  
Himel Mondal ◽  
Shaikat Mondal
Keyword(s):  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Home Health ◽  
Blood Pressure Monitors ◽  
Automatic Blood Pressure ◽  
Basic Technology ◽  
Home Health Monitoring ◽  
Monitoring Devices ◽  
Pulse Oximeters

Home health monitoring devices are consumer-grade devices that help to monitor the health of individuals at home. These devices are usually low-cost and easily procurable, and they can be operated by patients or their caretakers with minimal training. However, improper usage of these devices may provide erroneous results, which can lead to an unnecessary hospital visit or teleconsultation. In this article, we discuss the basic technology and proper usage of some of these devices, namely automatic blood pressure monitors, blood glucose monitors, body fat monitors, pulse oximeters, electrocardiographs, digital thermometers, and infrared thermometers. This brief document intends to help primary health care professionals and their patients use these devices.

scholarly journals Guest Editorial: Internet of Things for In-Home Health Monitoring

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-299
Author(s):  
Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues ◽  
Honggang Wang ◽  
Simon James Fong ◽  
Nada Y. Philip ◽  
Jia Chen
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Guest Editorial ◽  
Home Health ◽  
Home Health Monitoring

scholarly journals Unobtrusive Health Monitoring in Private Spaces: The Smart Home

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 864 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ju Wang ◽  
Nicolai Spicher ◽  
Joana M. Warnecke ◽  
Mostafa Haghi ◽  
Jonas Schwartze ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Home Health ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Behavioral Data ◽  
Sensor Technology ◽  
Current Sensor ◽  
Home Health Monitoring

With the advances in sensor technology, big data, and artificial intelligence, unobtrusive in-home health monitoring has been a research focus for decades. Following up our research on smart vehicles, within the framework of unobtrusive health monitoring in private spaces, this work attempts to provide a guide to current sensor technology for unobtrusive in-home monitoring by a literature review of the state of the art and to answer, in particular, the questions: (1) What types of sensors can be used for unobtrusive in-home health data acquisition? (2) Where should the sensors be placed? (3) What data can be monitored in a smart home? (4) How can the obtained data support the monitoring functions? We conducted a retrospective literature review and summarized the state-of-the-art research on leveraging sensor technology for unobtrusive in-home health monitoring. For structured analysis, we developed a four-category terminology (location, unobtrusive sensor, data, and monitoring functions). We acquired 912 unique articles from four relevant databases (ACM Digital Lib, IEEE Xplore, PubMed, and Scopus) and screened them for relevance, resulting in n=55 papers analyzed in a structured manner using the terminology. The results delivered 25 types of sensors (motion sensor, contact sensor, pressure sensor, electrical current sensor, etc.) that can be deployed within rooms, static facilities, or electric appliances in an ambient way. While behavioral data (e.g., presence (n=38), time spent on activities (n=18)) can be acquired effortlessly, physiological parameters (e.g., heart rate, respiratory rate) are measurable on a limited scale (n=5). Behavioral data contribute to functional monitoring. Emergency monitoring can be built up on behavioral and environmental data. Acquired physiological parameters allow reasonable monitoring of physiological functions to a limited extent. Environmental data and behavioral data also detect safety and security abnormalities. Social interaction monitoring relies mainly on direct monitoring of tools of communication (smartphone; computer). In summary, convincing proof of a clear effect of these monitoring functions on clinical outcome with a large sample size and long-term monitoring is still lacking.

Home health monitoring and diabetes: a web-based approach to achieving better control

2002 ◽  
pp. 607-611
Author(s):  
Betty A. Levine ◽  
Adil Alaoui ◽  
Ming-Jye Hu ◽  
Karen Smith ◽  
Stephen Clement ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Home Health ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Home Health Monitoring

Knowledge to action framework for home health monitoring

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 183-187
Author(s):  
Christine Lee ◽  
Kendall Ho
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Disease Management ◽  
Health System ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Chronic Disease Management ◽  
Home Health ◽  
Grand Challenge ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Knowledge To Action ◽  
Home Health Monitoring

Chronic disease management is a grand challenge, both to the patients for optimal management and to the overall health system with cost utilization. Emerging research evidence suggests that Home Health Monitoring (HHM) using home-based, remoting monitoring technologies can improve the patients’ quality of life, self-management, and achieve cost-effectiveness for the health system. How should HHM be introduced and integrated appropriately into the current healthcare delivery pathways to improve patient care and collect evidence of benefits simultaneously? The Knowledge to Action (KTA) framework is an effective approach in the implementation science literature to methodically guide the translation of evidence-based research findings into practice, putting knowledge into practical use. This article examines the use of the seven-step KTA model to address implementation facilitators and barriers of applying HHM in chronic disease management and then focus on its applicability on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as an example.

Design of a low cost and high performance wireless sensor network for structural health monitoring

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. 1845-1853 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Giammarini ◽  
Daniela Isidori ◽  
Marco Pieralisi ◽  
Cristina Cristalli ◽  
Matteo Fioravanti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Network ◽  
Structural Health Monitoring ◽  
Sensor Network ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Structural Health
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