Healthcare monitoring using Low-Cost sensors to supplement and replace human sensation: Does it have potential to increase independent living and prevent disease?

Zhuofu Liu; Vincenzo Cascioli; Peter W. McCarthy

doi:10.3390/s23042139

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Healthcare monitoring using Low-Cost sensors to supplement and replace human sensation: Does it have potential to increase independent living and prevent disease?

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Healthcare monitoring using Low-Cost sensors to supplement and replace human sensation: Does it have potential to increase independent living and prevent disease?

Zhuofu Liu, Vincenzo Cascioli and Peter W. McCarthy

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), Vol.23(4), Art. 2139

2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/s23042139

PMID: 36850736

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Continuous monitoring of health status has the potential to enhance the quality of life and life expectancy of people suffering from chronic illness and of the elderly. However, such systems can only come into widespread use if the cost of manufacturing is low. Advancements in material science and engineering technology have led to a significant decrease in the expense of developing healthcare monitoring devices. This review aims to investigate the progress of the use of low-cost sensors in healthcare monitoring and discusses the challenges faced when accomplishing continuous and real-time monitoring tasks. The major findings include (1) only a small number of publications (N = 50) have addressed the issue of healthcare monitoring applications using low-cost sensors over the past two decades; (2) the top three algorithms used to process sensor data include SA (Statistical Analysis, 30%), SVM (Support Vector Machine, 18%), and KNN (K-Nearest Neighbour, 12%); and (3) wireless communication techniques (Zigbee, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and RF) serve as the major data transmission tools (77%) followed by cable connection (13%) and SD card data storage (10%). Due to the small fraction (N = 50) of low-cost sensor-based studies among thousands of published articles about healthcare monitoring, this review not only summarises the progress of related research but calls for researchers to devote more effort to the consideration of cost reduction as well as the size of these components.

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Title: Healthcare monitoring using Low-Cost sensors to supplement and replace human sensation: Does it have potential to increase independent living and prevent disease?
Authors/Creators: Zhuofu Liu - Harbin University of Science and Technology
Vincenzo Cascioli - Murdoch Univ, Chiropract Clin, Murdoch 6150, Australia
Peter W. McCarthy - University of South Wales
Publication Details: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), Vol.23(4), Art. 2139
Publisher: MDPI
Number of pages: 25
Identifiers: 991005565369207891
Murdoch Affiliation: College of Health and Education
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

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