BEAT: Bio-Environmental Android Tracking

Author

Mitchell, Michael ; Sposaro, Frank ; Wang, An-I Andy ; Tyson, Gary

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

16-19 Jan. 2011

Firstpage

402

Lastpage

405

Abstract

We introduce BEAT (Bio-Environmental Android Tracking), which provides methods for collecting, processing, and archiving one´s daily vital and spatiotemporal statistics using off-the-shelf wireless devices and biologic and environmental sensors. BEAT can operate in a self-contained manner on a mobile device and analyze vital information in real time. It uses statistics such as heartbeat variance and range thresholds to issue alerts. Alerts are propagated in a tiered fashion, so that the end user and his/her social contacts have a chance to detect false alerts before contacting medical professionals. BEAT is built on the open Android platform to support a diverse class of mobile devices. The framework can be extended to a full-fledged personal health monitoring system by incorporating additional biosensor data such as blood pressure, glucose, and weight.

Keywords

biochemistry; biomedical electronics; biosensors; blood pressure measurement; body sensor networks; cardiology; medical information systems; mobile computing; patient monitoring; sugar; telemedicine; BEAT; Bio-Environmental Android Tracking; biosensor data; blood pressure; daily vital statistics; data archiving; data collection; data processing; environmental sensors; full-fledged personal health monitoring system; glucose; heartbeat range thresholds; heartbeat variance; mobile devices; off-the-shelf wireless devices; open Android platform; spatiotemporal statistics; weight; Androids; Biomedical monitoring; Bluetooth; Humanoid robots; Monitoring; Sensors; Smart phones; Biosensors; Context-aware services; Medical information systems; Mobile computing; Sensor systems and applications; Telemedicine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7687-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RWS.2011.5725489

Filename

5725489