Health Care IoT

Pain Assessment

Pain is a major single reason for people seeking medical care and it is associated with many illnesses. Pain assessment is critical for optimizing pain management interventions. Uncontrolled pain places patients at risk for numerous adverse psychological and physiological consequences, some of which may be life-threatening. Read more.

Internet of Cognitive Things in healthcare

Using a Three layer architecture sensor-edge-cloud to monitor patients out of hospital. Monitoring vital signs (respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, temperature, blood pressure, heart rate) to determine early-detection of possible health deterioration and optimize the sensor's efficiency considering these factors. Read more. 

Maternity Care

Maternal care aims to improve the overall health and welfare of the pregnant woman. This project presents a community engagement model for Maternal care that is smart, connected and coordinated using technology to proactively reach out to the community and use personalized intervention and education for improved self-management by the women. Read more.

Stress Monitoring

Smartphones and wearable devices made it easier to build a model of human's mental state. In this projects we are also trying to use different psychological methods to alleviate stress in collaboration with social ecology department.

UNITE Project

UNITE (UNderserved communITiEs) presents a community engagement model that is smart, deploying ubiquitous monitoring and lifelogging; connected, bringing together a diverse cast of community members including mothers, families, care providers, and outreach resources; and coordinated, using technology to proactively reach out to the community and use personalized intervention and education for improved self-management by the women. Read more.

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