%0 Journal Article
%@ 1558-0032
%A Anliker, U
%A Ward, JA
%A Lukowicz, P
%A Troster, G
%A Dolveck, F
%A Baer, M
%A Keita, F
%A Schenker, EB
%A Catarsi, F
%A Coluccini, L
%A Belardinelli, A
%A Shklarski, D
%A Alon, M
%A Hirt, E
%A Schmid, R
%A Vuskovic, M
%D 2004
%F discovery:1535739
%I IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
%J IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
%K Medical device, multiparameter, telemedicine,  validation, wearable, wrist-worn
%N 4
%P 415-427
%T AMON: A wearable multiparameter medical monitoring and alert system
%U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1535739/
%V 8
%X 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.
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