IoT based Healthcare Monitoring and Tracking System for Soldiers using ESP32

Abstract

Enemy warfare is a significant component in any nation's security in today's world. The army, navy, and air force are primarily responsible for national security (air). Soldiers have an important role in maintaining national security. Many people are worried about the soldiers' safety. For a country's security to be ensured, its military department must be effective. Soldiers who are on a mission or doing special operations will benefit from this technology. The soldiers' location, health, and other factors would be tracked via GPS (Global Positioning Systems). For continuous remote monitoring of troops' health, M-health technologies such as mobile computers, medical sensors, and communication technologies are employed. Smart sensors such as heart rate sensor, temperature sensor are attached along with bomb detector and panic button to the suggested system in which the complete mobility is to be implemented via a personal server. The parameters collected by the real time sensors attached are sent to the processor for further processing. The noise free signal is an important metric in this application; this would be carried out by edge computing solutions by the nearby personal server. The data will be sent by wireless connection to the base station which is located far away from the sensing location. Each soldier is also equipped with an ESP32 module that allows them to communicate with the base station in the event of an injury. Furthermore, once a soldier enters enemy territory, it is extremely difficult for the army base station to keep track of their whereabouts and health status. The tracking of soldiers as well as their health status during the fight will be forecasted in this study, and appropriate steps will be made by developing a mobile app which would provide an immediate alert to the people in the base station as well as nearby locality troops.