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Wearable and Implantable Medical Devices

Applications and Challenges

Volume 7 in Advances in ubiquitous sensing applications for healthcare

2020, Pages 25-53

Chapter 2 - Biosensors and Internet of Things in smart

healthcare applications: challenges and opportunities
Maria Pateraki 1, Konstantinos Fysarakis 2, Vangelis Sakkalis 1, Georgios Spanoudakis 2, Iraklis Varlamis 1 3,
Michail Maniadakis 1, Manolis Lourakis 1, Sotiris Ioannidis 1, Nicholas Cummins 4, Björn Schuller 4,
Evangelos Loutsetis 1, Dimitrios Koutsouris 5

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The use of health and well-being monitoring technologies has been steadily increasing and such systems
can now be found in smart homes, age-friendly workplaces, public spaces, and elsewhere. These monitoring
technologies employ a wide variety of off-the-shelf smart sensors and medical devices to support
functional, physiological, and behavioral monitoring and to address social interaction aspects of daily life.
These systems focus either on specific health-related conditions or on supporting the more general aims of
comfort, well-being, and quality of life. However, there remain several technological (interoperability,
expandability, etc.) and societal (cost, privacy, etc.) challenges to be addressed before smart biosensor
systems are widely adopted.

Motivated by the above, this chapter highlights the challenges and opportunities surrounding the
application of smart biosensors in healthcare and presents three state of the art solutions for leveraging
smart sensors in this context. The first concerns a smart living solution platform that integrates
heterogeneous sensors and assistive medical and mobile devices, enabling continuous data collection from
the everyday lives of the elderly and data analytics that support personalized interventions. The second
presents an Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem comprising sensors and smart wearables to improve
occupational safety and workforce productivity through personalized recommendations. The last case is an
intelligent noninvasive biosignal recording system that detects potentially hazardous pathological conditions
of infants during sleep.

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