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Wearable devices, e.g. smart-watches, are gaining popularity in many fields and in wellness monitoring too. In this paper we propose an IoT application to alert the medical doctor assigned to a critical unit by using a smart-watch. The wearable device improves the efficacy of monitoring patients at risk in hospital units allowing the medical doctor to access information at any time and from any place. A network was built to wirelessly connect bio-sensing platforms, which measure metabolites concentration in patients’ fluids (e.g. blood), with a dedicated application running on the smart-watch. In case of anomalous measured values, incoming alert notifications are received to ask urgent medical intervention. The main advantage of this new approach is that the doctors, or in general the caregivers, can freely move in the hospital other structures and perform other tasks meanwhile simultaneously and constantly monitoring all the patients thanks to the technology on their wrist.
F. Stradolini and E. Lavalle contributed equally to this work.
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The authors wants to thank Marcello Munari for having drawn the first image, Andrea De Gaetano, Ioulia Tzouvadaki and Tuğba Kiliç for their tips and Flavia Basilotta for the biosensor picture in Fig. 3. This work was supported by the CoMofA project (#325230 157139), with grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation.
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Stradolini, F., Lavalle, E., De Micheli, G., Motto Ros, P., Demarchi, D., Carrara, S. (2017). Paradigm-Shifting Players for IoT: Smart-Watches for Intensive Care Monitoring. In: Perego, P., Andreoni, G., Rizzo, G. (eds) Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare. MobiHealth 2016. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 192. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58877-3_9
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