Benefits of Mobile Phone Technology for Personal Environmental Monitoring

Benefits of Mobile Phone Technology for Personal Environmental Monitoring

BACKGROUND Tracking individuals in environmental epidemiological studies using novel mobile phone technologies can provide valuable information on geolocation and physical activity, which will improve our understanding of environmental exposures. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to assess the performance of one of the least expensive mobile phones on the market to track people's trav...

\"Internet of Things\": An Emerging Real-Time Technology for Environmental Health Monitoring

Sleep Apnea Patients Monitoring Using Mobile Phone

Real-time Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) episode detection and monitoring are important for society in terms of an improvement in the health of the general population and of a reduction in mortality and healthcare costs. Currently, to diagnose OSA patients undergo PolySomnoGraphy (PSG), a complicated and invasive test to be performed in a specialized center involving many sensors and wires. Acco...

Developing a Mobile Phone Application for Common Radiotherapy Calculations

Accuracy of the radiotherapy requires some routine quality control and dosimetry calculations, which would be done by radiotherapy physicists. Due to the increasing use of computers and simulation software in medical science, as well as trends indicating its continued growth, this study aims to develop a new smart-phone application to perform common radiotherapy-related calculations. Computatio...

Sensor Web Technology Application for Environmental Monitoring

Pollution of the environment is a problem of the modern age. The technology developed and used over the past decades has left serious consequences on human environment and implied the need for resolving them. Preserving quality of water, air and soil are quite common issues in many countries. This paper presents one way of dealing with these challenges, based on sensor networks and the Sensor W...