A Smart Shoe to Prevent and Manage Diabetic Foot Diseases

摘要

Diabetes is a global disease which is growing rapidly. The Canadian Diabetes Association put the estimate of Canadians living with this disease at more than 9 million (which is about a quarter of the nations' population) while the World Health Organisation puts the global prevalence as one out of twelve people. If not managed carefully, the disease can lead to further complications resulting in death. There has been several research efforts aimed at managing diabetes in order to prevent possible complications; such complications could be to any part of the body. In the past we proposed a solution to detect, prevent and manage complications that may result in the foot; the solution is a computer engineering approach that uses wireless technology and intelligent interpretation of sensed data to detect, prevent and manage possible chronic diabetic foot diseases. This work is an improvement on the proposed computer engineering approach.