A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
Self-Awareness in Remote Health Monitoring Systems using Wearable Electronics
Authors: Anzanpour A, Azimi I, Gotzinger M, Rahmani AM, TaheriNejad N, Liljeberg P, Jantsch A, Dutt N
Editors: No available
Conference name: Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE)
Publication year: 2017
Journal: Proceedings : Design, Automation, and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition
Book title : Proceedings of the 2017 Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE)
Journal name in source: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2017 DESIGN, AUTOMATION & TEST IN EUROPE CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION (DATE)
Journal acronym: DES AUT TEST EUROPE
Series title: Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition
First page : 1056
Last page: 1061
Number of pages: 6
ISBN: 978-1-5090-5826-6
eISBN: 978-3-9815370-8-6
ISSN: 1530-1591
DOI: https://doi.org/10.23919/DATE.2017.7927146
In healthcare, effective monitoring of patients plays a key role in detecting health deterioration early enough. Many signs of deterioration exist as early as 24 hours prior having a serious impact on the health of a person. As hospitalization times have to be minimized, in-home or remote early warning systems can fill the gap by allowing in-home care while having the potentially problematic conditions and their signs under surveillance and control. This work presents a remote monitoring and diagnostic system that provides a holistic perspective of patients and their health conditions. We discuss how the concept of self-awareness can be used in various parts of the system such as information collection through wearable sensors, confidence assessment of the sensory data, the knowledge base of the patient's health situation, and automation of reasoning about the health situation. Our approach to self-awareness provides (i) situation awareness to consider the impact of variations such as sleeping, walking, running, and resting, (ii) system personalization by reflecting parameters such as age, body mass index, and gender, and (iii) the attention property of self-awareness to improve the energy efficiency and dependability of the system via adjusting the priorities of the sensory data collection. We evaluate the proposed method using a full system demonstration.
