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Agri-Aid: An Automated and Continuous Farmer Health Monitoring System Using IoMT

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Along with smart infrastructures, smart institutions and smart services, having smart and healthy people is also a key component of smart villages. There are number of applications and tools that are designed to monitor the growth of the crop but there are little to none to monitor the health of the farmers. Healthcare is not a luxury and it should be accessible to everyone. With that said, Agri-Aid is an automated system that continuously monitors the physiological, vital, environmental and location based features which have a direct or indirect relationship on farmer’s health. This device will analyze the features and will let the user understand and allow them to make small changes in the process of farming. When in the case of severe threat to life, the Agri-Aid will connect to doctors automatically for immediate care. Agri-Aid is designed in the IoMT framework and an accuracy of approximately 98% is observed.

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Rachakonda, L. (2022). Agri-Aid: An Automated and Continuous Farmer Health Monitoring System Using IoMT. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Ribeiro, L., Strous, L. (eds) Internet of Things. IoT through a Multi-disciplinary Perspective. IFIPIoT 2022. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 665. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18872-5_4

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