A Medical IoT-Based Remote Monitoring System: Application on Diabetic Foot

Abstract

Diabetes represents an ever-increasing risk for the world population, and the rise of its prevalence is not expected to cease. To combat this alarming problem is the concomitant rise of new and improving mobile phones and wearable devices that can be exploited to fight diabetes. This paper presents a prototype of a monitoring system that will serve as a tool for improved patient monitoring by health care professionals (HCPs). Several physiological measurements were selected to perform the monitoring so that important data about a patient’s status can be collected and processed. Mobile technologies, cloud services and wireless protocols were used to develop a mobile application that can handle several devices and the data they gather. The resulting implementation provides a powerful infrastructure that could supply feedback to HCPs and patients as meaningful data, which can then be processed and potentially extend the assessment capabilities of an entire health care system.