Wearable Technology to Improve Health Care Infants in the Yomibato Peruvian Community

Abstract

The research arises from the need to face the health problems of the infants in one of the poorest and most remote areas of Peru who may die from diarrhea or some other disease which in a city would be easily treated. The objective is to reduce the waiting time and increase the satisfaction level of the patient’s medical care by implementing a remote Health Monitoring System using wearable technology. Users will be able to view and manage the monitoring system simply and quickly way. The research is carried out in the community of Yomibato, located in the center of the Manu National Park, where the information was collected. A Health Monitoring System using wearable technology and sensors to measure physical and biological parameters, and that is a more comfortable and non-invasive response appropriately to solve the issue. LoRa technology is proposed because of its capacity to send data collected over several kilometers in real-time to track the physical and biological patient’s data. This solution works even without internet access as well as the absence of radios in place, which would increase the availability and satisfaction level of children’s medical care.