A Novel IoT based Solution for Monitoring and Alerting Bronchial Asthma Patients

Abstract

Bronchial Asthma or simply Asthma is a prime concern for people of all the ages. There are many people around the world suffering from asthma. Asthma in a chronic condition where in the patient’s airways inflames and swells with thick mucus. This condition can make difficulty in breathing and trigger with cough and with a whistling sound when patient breathe out. Mainly asthma is a disease where patient feels difficult to breath and sometimes this becomes chronic where nebulization becomes compulsory. Symptoms for asthma are whistling, cough and difficulty in breathing etc. Hence there is an immediate need for some device which not only suggests how many puffs of inhaler has to be taken and at the same time need to warn the patient about severity regarding the surrounding atmosphere with respect to causes of severe illness. There are many IoT based electronic devices developed to detect asthma triggers. The proposed electronic device detects the trigger as well as notifies the patient with an alert to inhale the required amount of dosage. Proposed model continuously senses the atmosphere for different parameters that may cause difficulty in breathing and immediately alerts the patient to move from that place to safe place, thereby saving patient’s life and reducing risk.