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A New Proposal of a Smart Insole for the Monitoring of Elderly Patients

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Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2021)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems ((LNNS,volume 226))

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The remote control of the physical activities of elderly people during their daily activities to protect them against falls. Physiological parameters monitoring becomes one of the research challenges for the development of real-time survival systems for elderly patients to ensure a healthy life. In this paper, we propose a real-time plantar pressure monitoring system using a smart shoe insole. In this system two applications are developed to monitor the patient, we develop a mobile application and a web application. The patient will use the mobile application for the real-time reception of his plantar pressure where all his gate cycle over time is saved on a database (Firebase) and restored to a Web application used by the doctor for efficient monitoring of the patient, this application authorizes the doctor to control and analyze the medical file patients. The results of the proposed architecture demonstrate the efficiency of the system to control and detect bad plantar pressure.

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Acknowledgment

We are grateful for the support of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the New York University of Abu Dhabi (NYU). We would also like to thank SUP’COM’ students for their contribution to reaching these results.

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  1. Innov’Com Laboratory, High School of Communication of Tunis University of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia

    Salma Saidani & Ridha Bouallegue

  2. National School of Engineers of Tunis (ENIT), University Tunis EL Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

    Salma Saidani

  3. Laval University, Québec, Canada

    Rim Haddad

  4. New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Raed Shubair

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Saidani, S., Haddad, R., Bouallegue, R., Shubair, R. (2021). A New Proposal of a Smart Insole for the Monitoring of Elderly Patients. In: Barolli, L., Woungang, I., Enokido, T. (eds) Advanced Information Networking and Applications. AINA 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 226. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75075-6_22

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