A Telemonitoring Framework for Android Devices

Real-time telemonitoring of patient's well-being through various wearable sensors and other electronic accessories holds promise to provide better quality healthcare at lower costs. The design and implementation of telemonitoring applications is however still a cumbersome process as it requires implementation of user interfaces, data acquisition, data storage, and proper security and privacy mechanisms using various APIs. This process requires a high level of experience in software development and design, as well as a certain level of knowledge in the healthcare domain. The multi-disciplinary nature of such applications limits the growth of telemonitoring. In addition, a large number of applications aim to use smartphone-based monitoring, which adds an extra level of complexity due to the fault-prone nature of such systems. In this paper, we describe a general-purpose framework that can be used to easily implement telemonitoring applications on Android-enabled devices.