PhysioDroid: Combining Wearable Health Sensors and Mobile Devices for a Ubiquitous, Continuous, and Personal Monitoring

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The PhysioDroid system. From right to left, the wearable monitoring device records the user’s vital signs and transmits them to the mobile device. The application running on the mobile device provides functionalities such as visualization and interpretation of the collected data, triggering of alarms and health alerts. The mobile device also serves as gateway to the remote persistent storage system, which provides advanced health services based on the analysis of medical data from multiple users.