Practically, people can keep track of their daily physical activities and constantly unobtrusively monitor their health status at an affordable price, or even at no cost at all in case of free mobile applications.Ĭommercial wearable devices include a large variety of apparatuses, ranging from sophisticated smart-watches to simple belt-mounted pedometers. Nowadays, wearable devices have significantly grown in popularity and recent statistics have shown that around 50% of people in developed countries make use of these devices to monitor fitness or physical activity.
In this way, we are able to map information onto an integrated domain model by providing support for logical reasoning. We developed a web portal for integrating, sharing and analysing through a customisable dashboard heterogeneous IoT health and fitness data. The proposed approach is verified using data collected from several IoT fitness vendors to form a standard context-aware resource graph, and linking other health ontologies and open projects.
The paper describes a virtually integrated approach using standard Web Semantic technologies and Linked Open Data to cope with heterogeneous health data integration.
This work focuses on current, important needs in self-tracked health data modelling, and summarises challenges and opportunities that will characterise the community in the upcoming years. In particular, the healthcare landscape is characterised by a pervasive presence of data silos which prevent users and healthcare professionals from obtaining an overall view of the knowledge, mainly due to the lack of device interoperability and data representation format heterogeneity. However, several obstacles currently limit the true exploitation of these opportunities. The huge volume of data gathered from wearable fitness devices and wellness appliances, if effectively analysed and integrated, can be exploited to improve clinical decision making and to stimulate promising applications, as they can provide good measures of everyday patient behaviour and lifestyle.
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