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A crescente utilização de dispositivos móveis com diferentes finalidades é uma realidade. Com estes dispositivos, o utilizador tem a necessidade de aceder e usar dados em tempo real provenientes de diversas fontes. Uma tendência acentuada passa pela incorporação destes dispositivos móveis no vestuário, designados por dispositivos wearable.
Segundo a empresa IMS Research, o mercado deste tipo de dispositivos irá aumentar de 14 milhões de unidades registadas no presente ano (2013), para cerca de 171 milhões em 2016, sendo esta previsão conservadora, segundo o analista da IMS Research, Theo Ahadome [15]. A maioria dos dispositivos portáteis está atualmente projetada para questões de saúde, como a monitorização do nível de glicose e batimento cardíaco.
O objetivo deste trabalho passa por definir e implementar um dispositivo wearable para aplicações de saúde com um conjunto de funcionalidades para monitorização dos sinais vitais do utilizador. Posteriormente esta base pode ser aplicada em cenários de aplicação distintos, em que todos os dispositivos comunicam entre si, e fazem o reencaminhamento da informação para onde mais interessar. Foi desenhado e implementado hardware e software, para a construção de aplicações capazes de realizar a monitorização do batimento cardíaco, temperatura e humidade corporal, deteção de quedas, qualidade do sono, e chamadas de emergência.
Este trabalho aborda os diferentes cenários e aplicações da utilização deste dispositivo, invocando as necessidades específicas de cada situação, sendo estas necessidades trabalhadas e transformadas em características e especificações do sistema.
A plataforma de hardware e software permite criar um ecossistema de aplicações, permitindo usar todas as infraestruturas do sistema desenvolvido em futuros cenários de aplicação.
The growing use of mobile devices with different goals is a reality. Based on this devices, the user has a need to have access and to use real time data provided from several sources. The inclusion of this mobile devices on the clothing is a major trend, designated by wearable devices IMS Research reported that the market of this type of devices will grow from 14 million registered units by the present year (2013), to about 171 million in 2016, being a very conservative estimation, referred by the IMS Research analyst Theo Ahadome [15]. The major part of the mobile devices are actually designed for health applications, as glucose monitoring and heart rate. The goal of this work is to define and implement a wearable device for health application with a set of facilities for vital signals monitoring of the user. Later this base can be applied in different application scenarios, in which all devices communicate with each other, and make the forwarding of information to where is more interesting. It was designed and implemented hardware and software for applications capable to measure the heart rate, body temperature and humidity, fall detection, activity and sleep monitoring and emergency calls. This work approaches the different scenarios and applications of the use of this device, describing the specific needs of each situation and working and transforming into system characteristic and specifications. The hardware and software platform enables to create an applications ecosystem with granted access to the overall infrastructures of the developed system, in future application scenarios.
The growing use of mobile devices with different goals is a reality. Based on this devices, the user has a need to have access and to use real time data provided from several sources. The inclusion of this mobile devices on the clothing is a major trend, designated by wearable devices IMS Research reported that the market of this type of devices will grow from 14 million registered units by the present year (2013), to about 171 million in 2016, being a very conservative estimation, referred by the IMS Research analyst Theo Ahadome [15]. The major part of the mobile devices are actually designed for health applications, as glucose monitoring and heart rate. The goal of this work is to define and implement a wearable device for health application with a set of facilities for vital signals monitoring of the user. Later this base can be applied in different application scenarios, in which all devices communicate with each other, and make the forwarding of information to where is more interesting. It was designed and implemented hardware and software for applications capable to measure the heart rate, body temperature and humidity, fall detection, activity and sleep monitoring and emergency calls. This work approaches the different scenarios and applications of the use of this device, describing the specific needs of each situation and working and transforming into system characteristic and specifications. The hardware and software platform enables to create an applications ecosystem with granted access to the overall infrastructures of the developed system, in future application scenarios.
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Wearable Monitorização Atividade física Sinais vitais Dispositivos móveis Sistemas tempo real Hardware baixo consumo Monitoring Physical activity Vital signs Mobile devices Real time systems Low power hardware