An IoMT System for Healthcare Emergency Scenarios

Today and all around the globe there is a national emergency service in almost every country. These services typically offer through telephone calls access to medical services that ranged from advice to on-the-spot response to hazardous situations. These emergency call systems have become very popular and the proliferation of mobile devices and the mobile network have also facilitated the use of these services. Emergency responders face several challenges when trying to give an accurate and above all rapid response. One of the main problems is the collection of citizen’s information and its location and context. This is a crucial process for understanding the severity of a citizen state and effectively determining what response should be given. This paper presents an IoMT solution for medical emergency call scenarios, proposing an ubiquitous approach of patient data collection and response. The solution consists in a mobile application for emergency calls that collects patient location and health data from a wearable device (smartwatch) and a web application for emergency responders that interacts with patients with the aid of voice analysis and recognition. The proposed IoMT system and integrated solutions were validated both in terms of features and communication through a series of experiments on real devices through Wi-Fi network.