Alert portable telemedical monitor

A new dimension in the evolution of mHealth is wearable sensors which target long-term and continuous patient monitoring. An early example was the advanced care and alert portable telemedical monitor (AMON), which was a wrist-worn system for high-risk cardiac and respiratory patients [16]. The device was integrated with blood oxygen saturation... 

A list of various wireless wearable devices is given in Table 7.4. Different wireless technologies have been used in different wearable devices. A prototype of advanced care and alert portable telemedical monitor (AMON) wrist-worn unit is shown in Fig. 7.14 [8]. The system has two major parts a wrist-wom unit and a stationary unit at the telemedicine center. The wrist-wom unit measures physiological parameters and transmits through a Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) network to the stationary unit for data collection and processing by trained medical personnel [8]. The stationary unit is composed of a JAVA server platform and a workstation connected to the GSM transceiver. 

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