Remotely Monitoring a Patient's Mobility: A Digital Health Application

Author

Mellodge, Patricia ; Vendetti, Chelsea

Volume

30

Issue

2

fYear

2011

Firstpage

33

Lastpage

38

Abstract

This paper was focused on iShoe, a device used for balancing. This device was designed for patient rehabilitation that would operate safely in home of elderly or recovering patient. This device was comprise of wearable device such as force sensor, assistive device such as walker, and environmental sensor. Topics on design such as Tekscan´s FlexiForce sensor, force sensor, accelerometer, PC interfacing, microcontroller, insole development, walker development,and data acquisition development were discussed.

Keywords

accelerometers; biomedical electronics; biomedical equipment; data acquisition; force sensors; geriatrics; mechanoception; microcontrollers; patient monitoring; patient rehabilitation; PC interfacing; Tekscan FlexiForce sensor; accelerometer; assistive device; balancing; data acquisition; digital health application; elderly; environmental sensor; force sensor; iShoe; insole development; microcontroller; patient mobility; patient rehabilitation; recovering patient; remote monitoring; walker; wearable device; Biomedical monitoring; Data acquisition; Medical information systems; Microcontrollers; Remote monitoring;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Potentials, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0278-6648

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MPOT.2010.939453

Filename

5733977