A mobile healthcare solution for ambient assisted living environments

Elderly people need regular healthcare services and several times are dependent of physicians´ personal attendance. This dependence rises several issues to elders, such as the need to travel and mobility support. Mobile Health (m-Health) services and applications offer good healthcare solutions that can be used indoor or in mobility environments. This paper presents an ambient assisted living (AAL) solution for mobile environments. It includes elderly biofeedback monitoring using body sensors for data collection offering support for remote monitoring. The used sensors are attached to the human body (such as the electrocardiogram, blood pressure, and temperature). They collect data providing comfort, mobility, and guaranteeing efficiency and data confidentiality. Periodic collection of patients´ data is important to gather more accurate measurements and to avoid common risky situations. The presented proposal monitors elderly people, storing collected data in a personal computer, tablet, or smartphone through Bluetooth. This application allows an analysis of possible health condition warnings based on the input of supporting charts, and real-time bio-signals monitoring.