FoneAstra: making mobile phones smarter
Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions
FoneAstra: making mobile phones smarter
Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions
FoneAstra: enabling remote monitoring of vaccine cold-chains using commodity mobile phones
Proceedings of the First ACM Symposium on Computing for Development
MELOS: a low-cost and low-energy generic sensing attachment for mobile phones
NSDR '11 Proceedings of the 5th ACM workshop on Networked systems for developing regions
Kwiizya: local cellular network services in remote areas
Proceeding of the 11th annual international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
Community detection in cellular network traces
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies and Development: Notes - Volume 2
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In this paper we address the problem of providing data connection to the periphery of the health system by presenting Smart Connect. Smart Connect is a custom device that uses the cell phone network to provide limited data connectivity between a rural health facility and a server connected to the Internet. Through an analysis of the health systems in Nicaragua and Vietnam, we have identified a variety of processes that could be improved with this device. These include filing incidence reports on diseases, receiving results of diagnostic test, and providing automatic monitoring of vaccine refrigeration equipment. The main contributions of this work include a presentation of the Smart Connect requirements derived from the health care systems of Nicaragua and Vietnam, an argument in favor of facility based communication devices, and a brief discussion of the design for the Smart Connect device.