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1wenbo_guo@fudan.edu.cn.
Abstract:
The integration of mobile health (mHealth) technologies for continuous, real-time monitoring of physiological and behavioural signals, in concert with detailed measurement of environmental exposures, holds transformative potential for advancing personalized health risk assessment and enabling more effective treatment and intervention. In this protocol, I introduce a multimodal mobile monitoring system specifically designed to capture and integrate data on individual behaviour (daily activities and travel), respiratory function, physiological parameters and environmental exposures. The system combines mobile health devices and portable environmental sensors with GPS-enabled smartphone-based applications to generate synchronized, high-resolution data streams. These data are processed through a smart mobile phone application by incorporating physiological parameter calculation (e.g., physical activity intensity, respiratory rate) and external urban environmental data (e.g., urban green spaces, street view maps), after which a machine learning-based alert system was deployed to provide actionable insights into respiratory health, daily activities and mobility patterns, and exposure to risk factors. The protocol provides comprehensive and detailed guidance on hardware setup, software configuration, data acquisition procedures, and analytical workflows necessary for deploying the Multimodal Mobile Monitoring of Behaviour, Respiration, and Exposures (air pollution, noise, light, heat, greenness, etc.) for Treatment and Health Evaluation (M3-BREATHE) in both controlled clinical experiments and real-world contexts. This forward-looking M3-BREATHE platform establishes a scalable, non-invasive, and cost-efficient approach to longitudinal environment-mobility-health (E-M-H) monitoring, linking individual-level precision health in everyday life with long-term health intelligence at the population scale.
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