BEAT: Bio-Environmental Android Tracking

Abstract

We introduce BEAT (Bio-Environmental Android Tracking), which provides methods for collecting, processing, and archiving one's daily vital and spatiotemporal statistics using off-the-shelf wireless devices and biologic and environmental sensors. BEAT can operate in a self-contained manner on a mobile device and analyze vital information in real time. It uses statistics such as heartbeat variance and range thresholds to issue alerts. Alerts are propagated in a tiered fashion, so that the end user and his/her social contacts have a chance to detect false alerts before contacting medical professionals. BEAT is built on the open Android platform to support a diverse class of mobile devices. The framework can be extended to a full-fledged personal health monitoring system by incorporating additional biosensor data such as blood pressure, glucose, and weight.