DroidJacket: An Android-based application for first responders monitoring

Author

Colunas, Márcio F M ; Fernandes, José M Amaral ; Oliveira, Ilídio C. ; Cunha, João P Silva

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Telecommun. & Inf., Univ. of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

fYear

2011

fDate

15-18 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The Vital Responder project aims at exploring the synergies between wearable technologies, scattered sensor network, intelligent building technology and precise localization services to provide secure, reliable and effective first-response systems in emergency scenarios. One of the components required in this technological setting is the ability to monitor biosignals from first responders in the field. In this paper we present a mobile monitoring system called DroidJacket to address the Vital Responder requirements. DroidJacket uses a Android-based smartphone as a base station for vital signs acquired with the Vital Jacket^® garment, enabling visualization and simple real time processing.

Keywords

biomedical communication; computerised monitoring; emergency services; home automation; medical signal processing; mobile computing; wearable computers; wireless sensor networks; Android-based smartphone; DroidJacket; emergency scenarios; first responders monitoring; intelligent building technology; mobile monitoring system; precise localization services; scattered sensor network; vital jacket garment; vital responder project; wearable technologies; Androids; Biomedical monitoring; Humanoid robots; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Monitoring; Servers; mobile computing; monitoring system; vital signs; wearable technologies;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2011 6th Iberian Conference on

Conference_Location

Chaves

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1487-0

Type

conf

Filename

5974243