Remote Health Monitoring System using Wireless Body Area Network

Md Zahidul Islam,Md Murad Miah,Sazzad Hossain Rafi

doi:10.34257/gjrejvol19is1pg1

Abstract

The rapid increase of wireless technologies and body area networks has enabled the continuous healthcare monitoring of patients from a remote location using various sensors. This paper describes a remote health monitoring system using WBAN where different sensors are used to collect a patient’s vital signs. Once the data is received, the captured data are evaluated by the Arduino and sent to the patient’s Android Smartphone using a Bluetooth module and a newly developed android application named Health Monitoring App. Data can be accessed by the patient himself, by doctor or patient’s family members. In critical conditions such as when body temperature and pulse rate goes beyond a predefined value or patient fall down, then application from patient’s smart phone triggers a message to deliver to the doctor or relatives with the location of the patient using built-in GPS in patient’s phone. This remote health monitoring system is very feasible and cost-effective for a developing country like Bangladesh.

Highlights

The rapid increase of wireless technologies and body temperature, pulse rate, sense patient falling body area networks has enabled the continuous healthcare monitoring of patients from a remote location using various sensors
There will be a couple of sensors like temperature sensor, pulse sensor, accelerometer and gyroscope sensor to detect the patient’s temperature, heart rate and body movement information
Wireless body area networks sense physiological activities of a human using a collection of sensor nodes which are smaller in move from one place to another with the device

Summary

Remote Health Monitoring System

Patient’s mobile application use to see body temperature, heart rate, body movement abnormalities and send a sms to doctor or relative’s phone after a certain time interval including above information and location. As normally we use Fahrenheit to measure our body temperature. It measures the change in person is walking than the x, y, z-axis acceleration is volume of blood through any organ of the body which different from standing. A mobile application is needed to receive the data from a microcontroller and to send SMS to a doctor or relative’s phone. One app will belong to the patient only which will display his health parameters in real time as well as send vital information including patient’s location via SMS service. Figure 4: ‘Health Monitoring’ app to receive data from a microcontroller via Bluetooth module

Results and Analysis

Cost Analysis

VIII. Conclusion