Pervasive health monitor and analysis based on multi-parameter smart armband.

Abstract

With the growing attention on personal health, keeping track of the health related parameters has become an important issue, which is quite useful to increase people's living quality and reduce unpredicted risks. However, conventional physical checks are discrete and transient, which is incapable for the health monitor of daily living. Dedicated to everyday physiological monitor, we have developed a multi-parameter smart armband which is able record pulse, temperature and triaxial accelerations continuously. With the wearable device and signal processing algorithm, experiments of data acquisition in the daily living have been implemented on the volunteers. The long period record of 38 hours has demonstrated its feasibility of a total record without disturbing. And both historical and cross comparisons on the parameter correlation analysis have proven the valuable health information that the armband could reveal. As an integrated sensor module, the smart armband is simple and non-obtrusive, thus opens a promising approach towards the pervasive health monitor, especially for the elder population.