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Recent advances in pervasive sensing, mobile, and pervasive computing technologies have led to deployment of new smart sensors and smart sensor networks architectures that can be worn or integrated within the living environment without affecting a person’s daily activities. These sensors promise to change vital signs and motor activity monitoring from snapshot mode to continuous monitoring mode, enabling clinicians, therapists but also accompanying persons of elderly or people with chronic diseases or disabilities to provide healthcare services based on remote continuous monitoring of the patient, pervasive health monitoring or pervasive healthcare. Using computer resources expressed by networks of servers, storage applications and Web services health monitoring and healthcare might be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction by using computational intelligence and Semantic Web.
A brief literature review on healthcare challenges, the deployment of unobtrusive sensors that may be used as part of pervasive sensing systems for vital signs and daily motor activity monitoring, mobile health applications and pervasive computing for pervasive health monitoring and pervasive healthcare are presented in this chapter. The chapter encompasses examples of unobtrusive sensors for health and motor activity monitoring as well as Android OS and iPhone mobile applications from Apps Store for vital and sensory function test, emergency, stress management, brain activity management, nutrition, and physical exercises. Mobile healthcare architectures developed with the contribution of the authors for vital signs and motor activity remote monitoring as well as for indoor air quality monitoring and alert on respiratory distress, which includes wearable devices (wrist worn device) and sensors integrated in objects such as walker and wheelchair are also presented in this chapter.
The presented pervasive sensing and pervasive computing approaches for health monitoring and care underscore the capabilities of this kind of systems to assure more closely coordinated forms of health and social care provision as well as personalized healthcare for better quality of life.
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Postolache, O., Girão, P.S., Postolache, G. (2013). Pervasive Sensing and M-Health: Vital Signs and Daily Activity Monitoring. In: Mukhopadhyay, S., Postolache, O. (eds) Pervasive and Mobile Sensing and Computing for Healthcare. Smart Sensors, Measurement and Instrumentation, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32538-0_1
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