Wearable Sensors for Remote Health Monitoring.
Wearable Sensors for Remote Health Monitoring.
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10.3390/s17010130
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发表时间：
2017-01-12
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Deen MJ
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Majumder S;Mondal T;Deen MJ
由于医疗、公共卫生以及个人和环境卫生的显著改善，大多数国家的预期寿命在过去几十年中不断延长。然而，预期寿命的增加加上出生率的下降，预计在不久的将来会造成大量人口老龄化，给这些国家的社会经济结构带来沉重的负担。因此，为了老年人的医疗保健和福祉，开发具有成本效益、易于使用的系统至关重要。基于非侵入性和可穿戴传感器、执行器以及现代通信和信息技术的远程健康监测提供了一种高效且具有成本效益的解决方案，使老年人能够继续生活在舒适的家庭环境中，而不是昂贵的医疗设施中。这些系统还将允许医护人员真实的监测患者的重要生理体征，评估健康状况并提供来自远程设施的反馈。在本文中，我们介绍和比较了近年来报道的几种低成本和非侵入性的健康和活动监测系统。还介绍了可用于可穿戴系统的基于纺织品的传感器的调查。最后，几种通信技术的兼容性以及未来的前景和研究挑战，在远程监控系统将进行讨论。
Life expectancy in most countries has been increasing continually over the several few decades thanks to significant improvements in medicine, public health, as well as personal and environmental hygiene. However, increased life expectancy combined with falling birth rates are expected to engender a large aging demographic in the near future that would impose significant burdens on the socio-economic structure of these countries. Therefore, it is essential to develop cost-effective, easy-to-use systems for the sake of elderly healthcare and well-being. Remote health monitoring, based on non-invasive and wearable sensors, actuators and modern communication and information technologies offers an efficient and cost-effective solution that allows the elderly to continue to live in their comfortable home environment instead of expensive healthcare facilities. These systems will also allow healthcare personnel to monitor important physiological signs of their patients in real time, assess health conditions and provide feedback from distant facilities. In this paper, we have presented and compared several low-cost and non-invasive health and activity monitoring systems that were reported in recent years. A survey on textile-based sensors that can potentially be used in wearable systems is also presented. Finally, compatibility of several communication technologies as well as future perspectives and research challenges in remote monitoring systems will be discussed.