A New Approach to Monitor Sarcopenic Patients based on IoT Technologies

Among the main diseases that impact on the elderly population, sarcopenia is often cited. It regards the loss of muscle mass and strength associated with the aging of the human body. A prevention activity is very important to face this disease and an efficient monitoring could certainly contribute to improve the life quality not only to patients but also to families. Furthermore, it could be very useful as support for the local and national social-health system. The emerging hardware and software technologies enabling the Internet of Things offer a great opportunity in the design and implementation of smart systems capable of monitoring sarcopenic patients even at home. This work is part of an innovation project called SIMMS. In addition to the description of the proposed system architecture, first and partial results, obtained carrying out a functional validation of the overall system, have been reported and discussed.