Health monitoring of smart vehicle occupants: A review

Abstract

Technological innovations have pursued to improve the quality of life of people. These innovations have led to the development of high-tech smart equipments, vehicles, monitoring systems, and so on. Smart healthcare monitoring systems have become an important tool for monitoring the health of patients, company employees, athletes, among others. This work is a review of the scientific works and studies of the last ten years, the state of the art regarding the techniques employed for monitoring the health of occupants of smart vehicles. Through a systematic review of the studies reported in the literature, we quantified articles published and identified the most relevant works with the use of the Proknow-C technique. The databases employed for our review were ScienceDirect, Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar. Approximately 1337 works were found. Once selected the 16 most relevant papers, we applied the conceptual maps technique to construct a comprehensive overview linking the contributions of works and correlating them to the main research approaches adopted in the literature. This review brings meaningful contributions to help the scientific community to have a comprehensive understanding of the subject and to make advances.