AWARE: An IoT powered Smart Band with Multi-Tenancy Cardinality

ABSTRACT

The Pandemic caused due to COVID-19 has overweighed the current healthcare system and made us realize that how unaware we were of our health. Although lots of rational and harsh measured were taken to curb the spread of COVID-19 but still we lost millions of lives. During this pandemic technology played a vital role ranging from the invention of vaccine to remotely monitoring the usage with the help of IoT. Among several emerging technologies wearable smart devices were burgeoning as they are also powered by IoT now. Wearable devices are being used in different scenarios ranging from tracking and monitory infected patients to utilize the data for policy making. Proposed is a framework of an ecosystem "AWARE"which comprises of a smart band with advanced PPG and EEG sensors to detect Heart rate, Heart rate Variability, Respiration rate, SpO2, Step and Sleep data. The sensor data will be transferred to the AWARE application on host mobile through BLE and from mobile the user data it will be transferred to AWARE cloud for pre and post processing using Machine Learning algorithms. AWARE can used for monitoring and detection of health anomalies and diseases such as COVID-19 or chronic lifestyle diseases. AWARE works on a multi-Tenancy cardinality framework were the group (i.e., kids, elders, domestic worker) users can share the cloud storage and receive customized notifications. Also, the group manager (i.e., father, employer) will be notified in case of emergencies. Cloud data can be accessed by the users through dashboards. Government authorities can also access user data through APIs. Wearables are widely accepted these days due to its less intrusiveness. Although some professionals are skeptical of these devices, but the advantages are far beyond the minor pitfalls. In fact, several countries have already implemented wearables devices as the primary medium of COVID-19 detection, monitoring. © 2021 IEEE.