title: AMON: a wearable multiparameter medical monitoring and alert system.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Wearable Laboratory, Electronics Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zentrum, Zürich CH-8092, Switzerland. uanliker@ife.ee.ethz.ch
authors.forename: Urs
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Anliker
authors.forename: Jamie A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Ward
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lukowicz
authors.forename: Gerhard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tröster
authors.forename: François
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authors.lastname: Dolveck
authors.forename: Michel
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authors.lastname: Baer
authors.forename: Fatou
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authors.lastname: Keita
authors.forename: Eran B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Schenker
authors.forename: Fabrizio
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authors.lastname: Catarsi
authors.forename: Luca
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authors.lastname: Coluccini
authors.forename: Andrea
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authors.lastname: Belardinelli
authors.forename: Dror
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authors.lastname: Shklarski
authors.forename: Menachem
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authors.lastname: Alon
authors.forename: Etienne
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authors.lastname: Hirt
authors.forename: Rolf
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authors.lastname: Schmid
authors.forename: Milica
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authors.lastname: Vuskovic
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000465:Algorithms; D001794:Blood Pressure; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D004867:Equipment Design; D004868:Equipment Failure; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis / Q000379:methods; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005260:Female; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D008875:Middle Aged; D008904:Miniaturization / Q000379:methods; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012881:Skin Temperature; D018511:Systems Integration; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D013686:Telemetry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D014159:Transducers