AMON: A Wearable Multiparameter Medical Monitoring and Alert System
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This paper describes an advanced care and alert portable telemedical monitor (AMON), a wearable medical monitoring and alert system targeting high-risk cardiac/respiratory patients. The system includes continuous collection and evaluation of multiple vital signs, intelligent multiparameter medical emergency detection, and a cellular connection to a medical center. By integrating the whole system in an unobtrusive, wrist-worn enclosure and applying aggressive low-power design techniques, continuous long-term monitoring can be performed without interfering with the patients' everyday activities and without restricting their mobility. In the first two and a half years of this EU IST sponsored project, the AMON consortium has designed, implemented, and tested the described wrist-worn device, a communication link, and a comprehensive medical center software package. The performance of the system has been validated by a medical study with a set of 33 subjects. The paper describes the main concepts behind the AMON system and presents details of the individual subsystems and solutions as well as the results of the medical validation.
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The AMON wrist-worn device was developed to monitor high risk patients with cardio-respiratory problems.
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- Authors
- Anliker, U., Ward, J. A., Lukowicz, P., Troster, G., Dolveck, F., Baer, M., Keita, F., Schenker, E. B., Catarsi, F., Coluccini, L., Belardinelli, A., Shklarski, D., Alon, M., Hirt, E., Schmid, R., & Vuskovic, M.
- Affiliations
- ETH Zurich (CH)
- Istituto di Fisiologia Clinica (IT)
- Art of Technology (Switzerland) (CH)
- Venue
- IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
- Published
- 2004-12
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 415-427
- ISSN
- 1089-7771 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2136744557
- Cited by
- 707
- References
- 34
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- FWCI
- 18.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- discovery.ucl.ac.uk
- Locations
- IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Wireless Body Area Networks
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Wireless Sensor Networks for Data Analysis
- Keywords
- telemedicine, cardiac monitoring, respiratory monitoring, vital signs, wrist-worn devices, low power design, cellular communication, remote patient monitoring, high-risk patients
- MeSH terms
- Activities of Daily Living, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Algorithms, Blood Pressure, Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted, Equipment Design, Equipment Failure, Feasibility Studies, Female, Heart Rate, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Miniaturization, Sensitivity and Specificity, Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted, Skin Temperature, Telemetry, Transducers, Reproducibility of Results, Information Storage and Retrieval, Medical Records Systems, Computerized, Telemedicine, Systems Integration, Monitoring, Ambulatory, Equipment Failure Analysis, Internet
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