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Cloud-Based Data Storage System for eHealth Smart Devices

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Online Engineering and Society 4.0 (REV 2021)

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Abstract

The availability of cloud storage and data processing providers opens the opportunity to use them with instrumented smart devices in the field of eHealth and eRehabilitation. This work presents the current development of a system comprising a software and a prototype of an instrumented device for assessing the force–time behaviour during a handgrip strength test. The hardware dynamometer connects wirelessly with a software application running on an Android device. The developed App provides the user interface to operate with the system, allowing the graphical view of the test results and connecting to a cloud-based data storage. The Firebase platform, from Google, is used. The App provides the definition of the handgrip test time and the graphical view of the force-time curve. In the end of the test, other force-time parameters, computed from the acquired data, are displayed. This system provides a start concept for an application that can be expanded to support other instrumented devices. It is used both as an interface to operate a device and for data cloud storage, easing the procedure to store, process and share data.

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This research was funded by of Project NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000022 - SciTech - Science and Technology for Competitive and Sustainable Industries, co-financed by Programa Operacional Regional do Norte (NORTE2020), through Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional (FEDER) and by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, under Project LAETA - UIDB/50022/2020.

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  1. LAETA-INEG, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Paulo Abreu & Maria Teresa Restivo

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    Kalyan Ram Bhimavaram

  3. Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China

    Xiao-Guang Yue

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Abreu, P., Restivo, M.T. (2022). Cloud-Based Data Storage System for eHealth Smart Devices. In: Auer, M.E., Bhimavaram, K.R., Yue, XG. (eds) Online Engineering and Society 4.0. REV 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 298. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82529-4_39

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