A home mobile healthcare system for wheelchair users

With more and more applications of Internet of things (IoT) technologies, the quality of life of residents is one of the most important aspects in smart cities. Specially, home healthcare monitoring for the disabled and / or the elderly has become a focus of recent researches and developments. Existing home healthcare systems have drawbacks such as simple and few functionalities, weak interaction and poor mobility. This paper presents a home mobile healthcare (mHealth) system for wheelchair users, based on the emerging IoT technologies. The paper focuses on the proposed system architecture and the design of wireless body sensor networks (WBSNs). The nodes of WBSNs include wireless heart rate and ECG sensors, wireless pressure detecting cushion, home environment sensing nodes and control actuators. A prototype system implementation shows that the proposed people-centric sensing system is efficient in monitoring human activities and in interacting with the living environment.

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