SmartARM: Smartphone Based Activity Recognition and Monitoring System for Heart Failure Patients

Abstract

Abstract. With recent advancements in the medical field, activity monitoring applications that are proficient in measuring health-related data have become common. These devices are capable of transmitting information wirelessly and can be used in conjunction with smart phones to pass on data content to devices with similar operating capability. Motion sensor embedded smartphones provide users information about their own physical activity in an understandable format that may be used for a variety of applications. In this paper, I introduce the design and implementation of a health activity monitoring and diagnostic system suitable for heart failure patients. The main objective of this work is to collect data from external sensors that measure patient's vital signs and predict future events by observing these physical readings of the heart patient.