Designing Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Prototype System for Weight Loss Program for Obesity and Overweight Patients

摘要

Obesity/overweight patient is a person who has excessive body weight which prone to have serious diseases like heart disease, stroke, diabetes, some types of cancer, and osteoarthritis. In general, obesity/overweight is caused by some factors: excessive food intake, lack of physical activities, and genetics. In 2013, more than 2 billion people suffer obesity/overweight including 40 million in Indonesia. To overcome obesity/overweight, patients should control their food intakes and do physical activities. In most cases, the problem is they don't know whether their foods are good or not for their weights, and in the end, they fail to control their weights. This research helps weight loss program with machine-to-machine (M2M) technology with using special weight scale which can upload data to the server. Website and mobile application are built to give recommendation what food to eat today based on calorie calculation, in order to reduce their weight during the program.