VITASENIOR-MT: a telehealth solution for the elderly focused on the interaction with TV

Abstract

Remote monitoring of health parameters is a promising approach to improve the health condition and quality of life of particular groups of the population, which can also alleviate the current expenditure and demands of healthcare systems. The elderly, usually affected by chronic comorbidities, are a specific group of the population that can strongly benefit from telehealth technologies, allowing them to reach a more independent life, by living longer in their own homes. Usability of telehealth technologies and their acceptance by end-users are essential requirements for the success of telehealth implementation. Older people are resistant to new technologies or have difficulty in using them due to vision, hearing, sensory and cognition impairments. In this paper, we describe the implementation of an IoT-based telehealth solution designed specifically to address the elderly needs. The end-user interacts with a TV-set to record biometric parameters, and to receive warning and recommendations related to health and environmental sensor recordings. The familiarization of older people with the TV is expected to provide a more user-friendly interaction ensuring the effectiveness integration of the end-user in the overall telehealth solution.

Design Optimization of IoT Models: Structured Safety and Security Flaw Identification

“…Therefore, we designed a smart home in manner of an AAL use case for elderly. To create an approved use case for evaluation we take into consideration the approaches of [25], [26] and [27]. As the devices in our AAL smart home aiming in prevention, it is a wellbeing use case.…”

Telehealth monitoring of a hypertensive elderly patient with the new VITASENIOR-MT system: a case study

“…Global architecture of the VITASENIOR-MT system VITASENIOR-MT is a home healthcare platform that was designed as an IoT architecture for remote monitoring of biometric and environmental data. The hardware and software architectures of the platform were previously described in [12] and [13].…”

“…11] The VITASENIOR-MT telehealth solution was developed as a technological solution amenable to tailored configurations meeting the individual needs, allowing for the clinical monitoring of chronic conditions in the elderly populations, as well as ambient monitoring adding another layer of safety and confidence to the old adult living independently. [12]. This report depicts the application of this technology in the follow-up and clinical management of a hypertensive old adult.…”

VITASENIOR-MT: A distributed and scalable cloud-based telehealth solution

“…Telehealth has become an important research and development topic in the area of Cloud systems, promoting the use of mobile devices in healthcare services for more vulnerable populations [3]. To address the abovementioned issues, we propose a telehealth platform, VITASENIOR-MT, that allows to monitor the patients' clinical parameters as well as the environment where they live [4]. The elderly interact with the system through a television, a device that is already familiar to them, thereby avoiding the introduction of new technology which could lead to constraints and rejection of the system.…”

“…A central device, that we call VITABOX, supports the interaction between the user and the television. It is also responsible to collect data from the medical devices and environmental data from the wireless sensor network, as well as to send all data to the Cloud infrastructure (see details in [4]).…”