Experimental study of cardiac functionality for the wellness of individual by developing an android application

摘要

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, healthcare cost has increased exponentially which has burdened the common man across the world. India being the country of having high youth concentration, needs a cost-effective quality healthcare delivery system to generate the healthy workforce. Here, comes the role of wearable device which provides users the flexibility to know about their health irrespective of their location. Though it is one of the means to access body vitals, it does not analyze them. Therefore, it is necessary to discover a solution for the world's burgeoning population to analyze the physiological parameters viz. heart rate, respiratory activity, blood pressure etc. captured from wearable devices and provide customized healthcare recommendations. This paper attempts to develop an android application which takes the heart rate data of the users as an input using wearable device application programming interface (API). Eventually the application predicts cardiac problems on the basis of the recorded heart rate data and thereby recommends precautionary/ curative measures in the form of diet prescription, physical activity among others. In this way the state-of-the-art application enables its users to access the cost-effective quality home-based health care which will make them more prosperous and productive at their workplaces in the long run.