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Review
. 2021 Nov 19;21(22):7693.
doi: 10.3390/s21227693.

Assessing the Current Integration of Multiple Personalised Wearable Sensors for Environment and Health Monitoring

Zhaoxi Zhang  1   2 , Prince Michael Amegbor  1   2 , Clive Eric Sabel  1   2
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Assessing the Current Integration of Multiple Personalised Wearable Sensors for Environment and Health Monitoring

Zhaoxi Zhang et al. Sensors (Basel). .

Abstract

The ever-growing development of sensor technology brings new opportunities to investigate impacts of the outdoor environment on human health at the individual level. However, there is limited literature on the use of multiple personalized sensors in urban environments. This review paper focuses on examining how multiple personalized sensors have been integrated to enhance the monitoring of co-exposures and health effects in the city. Following PRISMA guidelines, two reviewers screened 4898 studies from Scopus, Web of Science, ProQuest, Embase, and PubMed databases published from January 2010 to April 2021. In this case, 39 articles met the eligibility criteria. The review begins by examining the characteristics of the reviewed papers to assess the current situation of integrating multiple sensors for health and environment monitoring. Two main challenges were identified from the quality assessment: choosing sensors and integrating data. Lastly, we propose a checklist with feasible measures to improve the integration of multiple sensors for future studies.

Keywords: environment measurement; human sensors; individual data; physiological response.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest. The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results.

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