Telemonitoring system and central real-time data processing for preventive medicine research

This paper describes a telemonitoring system that allows the examination of preventive-medicine subjects in daily routines. The system combines the acquisition of different physiological data and the subjective workload of the subjects. A mobile handheld/smart phone depicts the data node of the afield system part and organises the data flow of the sensor system and integrated questionnaires. It continuously transfers the data to a central process management system, which stores the data in a database and executes the real-time data processing via different modules. The modules contain different regression and fuzzy models for an individual analysis of the data. All results are also stored by the process manager and the important results are sent to a medical information management system to provide examiners and subjects with the data. The developed system reduces the effort for the examiner and increases the quality of research studies significantly. Moreover, concerning the direct supply of raw and processed data during and after the examination, the system is timesaving with regard to the examiners.