2018 Volume 12 Issue 1 Pages 30-37
Facing a super-aging society, there is an urgent need in Japan suggested to shift from passive medical care to preventive medicine and health management, and therefore, a strong desire for healthcare monitoring that is available anytime and anywhere. Firstly, this paper focuses on core technologies of wearable healthcare monitoring, including physiological information sensing. Then, cuffless wearable devices for blood pressure sensing and stress monitoring are reviewed, which have recently been attracting a lot of attention. Concerning the research and development of physiological information sensing, it is important to achieve the following two technologies:(1) unconstrained monitoring using wearable sensors (hardware) and (2) high-order information extraction of physical and psychological conditions from multivariate analysis of sensor data (software).
