ANT+ medical health kit for older adults

Abstract

This paper describes the research made on current mobile health monitoring systems targeting the elderly and the development of an elderly-oriented solution, serving as a proof-of-concept of the research done. It provides a scientific contribution by specifying a system with characteristics never combined before, when applied to the health monitoring of older adults. Also, a prototype for that system was developed and evaluated with its end users - the elderly. The proof of concept solution allows the patient to measure his weight and blood pressure with ANT+ sensors connected to his Android smartphone. The measured data is stored on the mobile device for later reading and sent through the network, to a medical entity. This entity can, whenever desired, analyse that information and give an appropriate feedback to the patient through a web application. © Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2013.