期刊名称：UPGRADE: The European Journal for the Informatics Professional
印刷版ISSN：1684-5285
出版年度：2011
卷号：XII
期号：01
出版社：Council of European Professional Informatics Societies
摘要：In this paper we investigate the potential of the ‘Internet of Things’ to monitor health and wellness. We report on two categories of system: home telehealth monitoring normally used by people with an illness or chronic condition, and mobile, unfettered systems for classifying movement activity, specifically designed to motivate active people, currently used by sports enthusiasts. For each application sensor technology is readily available at reasonable cost, but integration and usability are major issues. Enhanced connectivity and feedback can leverage this technology to promote wellness and we believe that intelligent and autonomous ‘things’ (sensors, processing and communication devices, and displays) can be usefully employed for this purpose. This technology may be appropriate to managing chronic disease and empowering the ageing population, if the systems can be tuned to their requirements, with particular reference to usability
