Miniaturized Wearable Sensors For Wireless Realtime Vital Sign Recordings, Cloud Based Data Transfer, Storage, And Analysis

Wireless Real‐time continuous monitoring of vital signs via readily accessible cloud‐based web portals and apps is much needed for practical implementation of wireless mobile health and connected healthcare of the future. Several preliminary versions of such capabilities have recently been developed and commercialized for hospitalized patients. Using simple applications, physicians are able to use their mobile smart phone and tablet devices to readily access and analyze vital signs of patients that are in hospitals and in many cases the data is stored in the cloud for further analysis. Full potential and implementation of this capability, however, will only become a reality if wearable sensor technologies could be used for every day healthy or diseased individuals and in home settings instead of the hospital. We describe here a wearable sensor technology designed to be used by non‐hospitalized individuals that accurately monitors ECG, Blood pressure, Respiration, Oxygen saturation and body temperature. The device is wearable as a watch or a chest band, has long battery life (up to 24 hrs), and is bluetooth enabled for wireless data transmission to the cloud. Preliminary validation studies with 80 subjects using this sensor technology vs. gold standard methodologies for measurement of vital signs will be presented. Our findings demonstrate the efficacy of using this system for continuous monitoring and detection of vital signs in people of different ages, gender groups, and weight (BMI). This system is designed for home use and has direct application for mobile health diagnostics and connected care.