Key result
Frugal machine learning corrects smartwatch heart rates to ~8 BPM mean error using minimal memory.
Why the study?
Continuous health and safety monitoring in high-risk workplaces can improve worker safety, but scaling such systems while maintaining low costs remains challenging due to the low measurement quality of low-cost smartwatches.
A novel frugal machine learning method for smartwatch heart rate correction achieved a mean absolute error of 8.19 BPM with minimal memory requirements, enabling scalable occupational health monitoring.
May support scalable wearable monitoring in occupational settings; leaves open real-world clinical validation.
Continuous, real-time monitoring of occupational health and safety in high-risk workplaces such as construction sites can substantially improve the safety of workers. However, introducing such systems in practice is associated with a number of challenges, such as scaling up the solution while keeping its cost low. In this context, this work investigates the use of an off-the-shelf, low-cost smartwatch to detect health issues based on heart rate monitoring in a privacy-preserving manner. To improve the smartwatch's low measurement quality, a novel, frugal machine learning method is proposed that corrects measurement errors, along with a new dataset for this task. This method's integration with the smartwatch and the remaining parts of the health and safety monitoring system (built on the ASSIST-IoT reference architecture) are presented. This method was evaluated in a laboratory environment in terms of its accuracy, computational requirements, and frugality. With an experimentally established mean absolute error of 8.19 BPM, only 880 bytes of required memory, and a negligible impact on the performance of the device, this method meets all relevant requirements and is expected to be field-tested in the coming months. To support reproducibility and to encourage alternative approaches, the dataset, the trained model, and its implementation on the smartwatch were published under free licenses.
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Sowiński et al. (2023) studied Occupational health and safety monitoring. Frugal machine learning method for heart rate correction was evaluated on Mean absolute error of heart rate measurement. A novel frugal machine learning method for correcting smartwatch heart rate measurements achieved a mean absolute error of 8.19 BPM with minimal memory requirements in a laboratory environment.
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