BLE: Bluetooth Low Energy; POC: point of care; LPWAN: Low-Power Wide-Area Network.
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SS: Conceptualization, Writing—review & editing, Supervision. DM: Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing—review & editing, Supervision. NKM: Methodology, Writing—review & editing, Supervision. HR: Methodology, Investigation, Visualization, Data curation. BPS: Methodology, Formal analysis. HTB: Writing—original draft, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Data curation. All authors have read and approved the submitted version of the manuscript.
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