The current trend in health monitoring systems is to move from the hospital to portable personal devices. This work shows how\nconsumer devices like heart rate monitors can be used not only for applications in sports, but also for medical research and\ndiagnostic purposes. The goal pursued by our group was to develop a simple, accurate, and inexpensive system that would use\na few pieces of data acquired by the heart rate monitor and process them on a smartphone to (i) provide detailed test reports about\nthe user�s health state; (ii) store report records; (iii) generate emergency calls or SMSs; and (iv) connect to a remote telemedicine\nportal to relay the data to an online database.Thesystem developed by our teamuses sophisticated algorithms to detect stress states,\ndetect and classify arrhythmia events, and calculate energy consumption. It is suitable for use by elderly subjects and by patients\nwith heart disease (e.g., those recovering from myocardial infarction) or neurological conditions such as Parkinson�s disease. Easy,\nimmediate, and economical remote health control can therefore be achieved without the need for expensive hospital equipment,\nusing only portable consumer devices.
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