An Android-based heart monitoring system was developed to process consumer heart rate data on a smartphone for stress detection, arrhythmia classification, and remote telemedicine.
Consumer heart rate monitors and smartphones can be integrated into an inexpensive remote health monitoring system for elderly and cardiac patients without the need for expensive hospital equipment.
The current trend in health monitoring systems is to move from the hospital to portable personal devices. This work shows how consumer devices like heart rate monitors can be used not only for applications in sports, but also for medical research and diagnostic purposes. The goal pursued by our group was to develop a simple, accurate, and inexpensive system that would use a few pieces of data acquired by the heart rate monitor and process them on a smartphone to (i) provide detailed test reports about the user's health state; (ii) store report records; (iii) generate emergency calls or SMSs; and (iv) connect to a remote telemedicine portal to relay the data to an online database. The system developed by our team uses sophisticated algorithms to detect stress states, detect and classify arrhythmia events, and calculate energy consumption. It is suitable for use by elderly subjects and by patients with heart disease (e.g., those recovering from myocardial infarction) or neurological conditions such as Parkinson's disease. Easy, immediate, and economical remote health control can therefore be achieved without the need for expensive hospital equipment, using only portable consumer devices.
Pierleoni et al. (Wed,) conducted a other in Heart disease and neurological conditions. Android-based heart monitoring system was evaluated. An Android-based heart monitoring system was developed to process consumer heart rate data on a smartphone for stress detection, arrhythmia classification, and remote telemedicine.