Mobile phone sensors in health applications

Abstract

One of the most important device in our lives is a mobile phone. For now, it is a powerful computing platform equipped with various sensors. Embedded sensors can be used in multiple domains, such as environmental monitoring, social networks, safety and also healthcare. In this paper we survey the main use cases of mobile phone sensors in mobile healthcare. We classify the proposed mHealth sensing applications according to sensor types they use and discuss the main advantages provided by these applications.

Keywords

• Mobile Healthcare
• Sensor
• Mobile Phone