TY - GEN
T1 - The challenges facing wearable sensor systems
AU - McAdams, Eric
AU - Gehin, Claudine
AU - Massot, Bertrand
AU - McLaughlin, James
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - It has been pointed out that, in spite of significant national and international funding programmes, there is a dearth of successfully commercialised wearable monitoring systems. Although problems such as financial reimbursement, device interoperability and the present lack of the required connected healthcare infrastructure are major hurdles to the provision of remote clinical monitoring of home-based patients, the "Mount Everest" of monitoring applications, why are wearable systems not already commercialised and used in less demanding applications? The numerous wearable systems which appear on the Web and even in the literature are, for the most part, basic prototypes unsuited to the demands of real-life applications. SMEs which do seek to commercialise clinically promising systems are unfortunately faced with many challenges and few as yet have survived long enough to successfully commercialise their innovations.
AB - It has been pointed out that, in spite of significant national and international funding programmes, there is a dearth of successfully commercialised wearable monitoring systems. Although problems such as financial reimbursement, device interoperability and the present lack of the required connected healthcare infrastructure are major hurdles to the provision of remote clinical monitoring of home-based patients, the "Mount Everest" of monitoring applications, why are wearable systems not already commercialised and used in less demanding applications? The numerous wearable systems which appear on the Web and even in the literature are, for the most part, basic prototypes unsuited to the demands of real-life applications. SMEs which do seek to commercialise clinically promising systems are unfortunately faced with many challenges and few as yet have survived long enough to successfully commercialise their innovations.
KW - Personalised health
KW - Sensors
KW - Wearable systems
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84866771563&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-069-7-196
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-069-7-196
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 22942054
AN - SCOPUS:84866771563
SN - 9781614990680
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 196
EP - 202
BT - pHealth 2012 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health
PB - IOS Press
T2 - 9th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health, pHealth 2012
Y2 - 26 June 2012 through 28 June 2012
ER -