The researcher at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), Jesús Fontecha Titma, will receive financing from the Mapfre Foundation to develop his intelligent system for integral, personalized and continuous monitoring of patients with diabetes mellitus.
The project has been selected among 300 international candidates to attend one of the 10 aid granted by the call 'Ignacio H. de Larramendi' in the field of health promotion, as reported by the UCLM in a press release.
The idea of the project arose from the need for continuous monitoring and monitoring with guarantees that require chronic diseases of the type of diabetes, with the aim of improving the quality of life of patients and their relatives.
Thus, the Jesús Fontecha project involves the development of a system that will take advantage of technological advances to favor the monitoring of relevant parameters of diabetes-in its types I and II mainly-, facilitating the achievement of objectives and supporting the analysis ofbehaviors associated with the patient.
This is possible thanks to smartphones, activity bracelets, smart watches or biomedical devices with wireless connection are some examples of these mechanisms capable of monitoring many vital constants and aspects of the patient itself, in an increasingly intrusive way and with hardly any interaction.
Currently, Jesús Fontecha develops his research work in the Modeling Ambient Intelligence (MOMI), attached to the Institute of Information Technologies and Systems (ITSI) of the University of Castilla-La Mancha.
