title: PlaIMoS: A Remote Mobile Healthcare Platform to Monitor Cardiovascular and Respiratory Variables.
abstract: The number of elderly and chronically ill patients has grown significantly over the past few decades as life expectancy has increased worldwide, leading to increased demands on the health care system and significantly taxing traditional health care practices. Consequently, there is an urgent need to use technology to innovate and more constantly and intensely monitor, report and analyze critical patient physiological parameters beyond conventional clinical settings in a more efficient and cost effective manner. This paper presents a technological platform called PlaIMoS which consists of wearable sensors, a fixed measurement station, a network infrastructure that employs IEEE 802.15.4 and IEEE 802.11 to transmit data with security mechanisms, a server to analyze all information collected and apps for iOS, Android and Windows 10 mobile operating systems to provide real-time measurements. The developed architecture, designed primarily to record and report electrocardiogram and heart rate data, also monitors parameters associated with chronic respiratory illnesses, including patient blood oxygen saturation and respiration rate, body temperature, fall detection and galvanic resistance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Innovation and Technological Development, Rasoft S.A. de C.V., 111 Canario Street, C.P. 28017 Colima, Col., Mexico. ramses7083@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Ramses
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Miramontes
authors.affiliation: College of Telematics, University of Colima, 333 University Avenue, C.P. 28045 Colima, Col., Mexico. aquinor@ucol.mx.
authors.forename: Raúl
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Aquino
authors.affiliation: Department of Innovation and Technological Development, Rasoft S.A. de C.V., 111 Canario Street, C.P. 28017 Colima, Col., Mexico. miphos@hotmail.es.
authors.forename: Arturo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Flores
authors.affiliation: Department of Innovation and Technological Development, Rasoft S.A. de C.V., 111 Canario Street, C.P. 28017 Colima, Col., Mexico. guillermoarb@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Guillermo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rodríguez
authors.affiliation: Department of Innovation and Technological Development, Rasoft S.A. de C.V., 111 Canario Street, C.P. 28017 Colima, Col., Mexico. rafaelanguianof@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Rafael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Anguiano
authors.affiliation: Department of Innovation and Technological Development, Rasoft S.A. de C.V., 111 Canario Street, C.P. 28017 Colima, Col., Mexico. arturorogr@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Arturo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ríos
authors.affiliation: College of Telematics, University of Colima, 333 University Avenue, C.P. 28045 Colima, Col., Mexico. arted@ucol.mx.
authors.forename: Arthur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Edwards
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006339:Heart Rate; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D010092:Oximetry; D012119:Respiration; D012984:Software
keywords: e-health; health devices; technological platform