Abstract
The growing number of elderly people with health issues is the consequence of the increase in life expectancy. Tele-homecare applications have already reported promising results on reducing health care costs and improving quality of life. In this study, we present the SMARTA platform (www.smarta-project.it): a fully integrated system capable to monitor its user’s health condition. The latest telemedicine and wearable technologies have been used to make cooperating users and caregivers. The system integrates wearable (ECG and accelerometry), non-wearable (temperature, weight, blood pressure etc.) and environmental (light, refrigerator etc.) sensors.
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Sistema di Monitoraggio Ambientale con Rete di sensori e Telemonitoraggio indossabile a supporto di servizi di salute, prevenzione e sicurezza per l’Active Aging.
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The work was supported by the project “SMARTA” (code: 40628684, www.smarta-project.it), funded by Regione Lombardia, Italy, through the call “Smart cities 2013”.
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This work was financially supported by a grant from Regione Lombardia (Bando “Avviso pubblico per la realizzazione di progetti di ricerca industriale e sviluppo sperimentale nel settore delle smart cities and communities (d.d.u.o. n. 2760/2013 - POR-FESR 2007-2013 asse 1 - Linea di intervento 1.1.1.1. azione E)”.
Authors thank all partners of the project (www.smarta-project.it): Datamed S.r.l., Flextronics Design S.r.l., Argonet S.r.l., Software Team S.r.l., Electron, Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus, Dipartimento di Informatica of Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Meccanica e Design of Politecnico di Milano, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and CoDeBri.
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Rivolta, M.W. et al. (2017). A New Personalized Health System: The SMARTA Project. In: Perego, P., Andreoni, G., Rizzo, G. (eds) Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare. MobiHealth 2016. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 192. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58877-3_47
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