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The WODIA project develops Internet of Things (IoT) tools for the screening and long-term monitoring of women suffering from preeclampsia, a non-communicable disease affecting women during pregnancy. This includes performing home monitoring using an internet of thing (IoT) gateway device along with blood pressure and other medico devices as well as activity trackers. It is important that the tools developed are valid and reliable for both clinical and home use. The integration of the devices, the infrastructure, and the server components have not previously been systematically validated and evaluated for reliability during prolonged usage. The aim of this study is to validate the functionality of the WODIA healthcare IoT system, with special focus on the web API. To assess it, a set of tests were defined, and a series of tools were developed to enable testing of the components of the system. With this methodology in place, it was possible to validate several aspects of the system, in an initial development stage.
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This work has been supported by Innovation Fund Denmark (IFD), Denmark, National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR), Poland, Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding, (UEFISCDI), Romania in the framework of the ERA PerMed as part of the project WODIA: Personalized Medicine Screening and Monitoring Programme for Pregnant Women Suffering from Preeclampsia and Gestational Hypertension. Also, we would like to say thank you to our clinical collaborators in the WODIA project. Please find more information on WODIA here: https://ece.au.dk/wodia.
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Miranda, J., Wagner, S.R., Mazur-Milecka, M., Rumiński, J. (2024). Test and Validation of an Internet of Things Platform for Remote Monitoring of Pregnant Women. In: Ferraro, V., Covarrubias, M., Zdravevski, E., Pires, I.M., Marques Martins de Almeida, J.M., Gonçalves, N.J. (eds) IoT Technologies and Wearables for HealthCare. HealthyIoT icwh 2023 2023. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 530. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71911-0_1
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