Mobile sensing technology and healthcare

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Mobile Sensing Technology And Healthcare
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What is a Sensor?

• A sensor is a device which receives and responds
  to a signal.
• It measures a physical quantity and converts it
  into a signal that can be can be read by an
  observer or by an instrument.
• The sensors can be used to detect a huge variety
  of conditions like temperature, pressure,
  humidity, speed, motion, distance, light etc.

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How Mobile Sensing is Useful in Healthcare

• It can be used for fast diagnosis of diseases and
  conditions such as HIV, hepatitis, ebola, and
  malaria from a single drop of blood or saliva.
• In measuring levels of blood glucose in
  diabetics.
• Can Detect the presence of harmful microbes and
  infection in the blood.
• For predicting fertility in women

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Sensing technology can be the future of health
care
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Benefits

• Reduction in healthcare costs
• Provide targeted treatments that are tailored for
  the individual based on their readings, rather
  than applying one-size-fits-all prescriptions.
• Diagnosis could be almost instant
• Could be used at places where the availability of
  doctors and diagnostic equipment is in short
  supply

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Following figure shows wide applications of
sensing technology in Healthcare
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The graph clearly shows the rapidly increasing
trends of Mobile Sensing Apps in fitness and
sports.
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