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Wearable devices for digital health: the SPHERE Wearable 3

  • Antonis Vafeas
    ,
  • Md Israfil Biswas
    ,
  • Xenofon Fafoutis
    ,
  • Atis Elsts
    ,
  • Ian J. Craddock
    ,
  • Robert J. Piechocki
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Sustainable Development Goals

  • SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
    SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Abstract

This paper presents a novel wearable device: the SPHERE Wearable 3. The Wearable 3 is a wrist-worn sensor node tailored for low maintenance residential health and behaviour monitoring. It features multiple inertial measurement sensors, as well as a heart-rate sensor, capacitive button, and OLED screen. The Wearable 3 builds on our experience with previous generations of wearable sensing nodes while adding novel features, including interactive elements. We present a novel two-way communication based on a customized implementation of the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) protocol to connect the Wearable 3 with a gateway device, and describe various optimizations of energy consumption. The Wearable 3 is currently being deployed in residential homes in Bristol, UK, as part of a project aiming to collect diagnostic data from early-stage Alzheimer's patients.

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Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Original language

English

Publication milestones

  • Published - 29/05/2020

Publication status

Published - 29/05/2020

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery, United States

ISBN (Print)

9780994988645

Host publication title

EWSN '20: Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks

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